What purpose does the medium achieve? The text gives the reader details that suggest how chocolate bars smell. The text includes facts to help the reader understand the history of the chocolate bar. The text provides descriptions that help the reader picture how the chocolate bar has changed. The text presents details that help the reader see how the taste of the chocolate bar has improved.

What is the effect of the author's choice of the word loathsome rather than hateful in this sentence from the count of monte cristo? two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration. it reveals that the unpleasant aspects of the stairway are manmade. it stresses the disgusting, offensive nature of the stairway. it suggests that the soldiers are used to the place and do not hate it. it implies that the effects of the stairway are felt only by the inspector.