Which phrase from the proposal is an example of understatement? O

A. The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one

million and a half...

O

B. [I]t is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to

censure such a practice ſeating children], (although indeed very

unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty...

O

C. Mothers ... sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to

avoid the expence than the shame, which would move tears and

pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.

D. The question therefore is, How this number (of children] shall be

reared, and provided for?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.