Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.
What is the effect of the second-person point of view in
this excerpt?
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But be careful if you adopt a partial regime: heavy fines
are levied for eating meat on nonmeat days. The
standard fine is £3 or three months imprisonment, but in
1561 a London butcher slaughtering three oxen in Lent is
fined £20. Fines can be levied on the head of a
household for every single member who breaks the fast,
so if you have lots of servants, make sure they all obey
the law.
O It allows the reader to personally experience the
effects of hunger during Elizabethan England.
It puts the reader in the place of the Elizabethan who
has to pay fines for eating meat.
It explains to the reader which types of food were
acceptable during Lent.
It describes the difficulties of being the head of an
Elizabethan household.
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