Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milk way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

-William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

A. The simile comparing the daffodils to stars helps to show how numerous and bright the flowers are.

B. The simile comparing the daffodils to stars suggest that the flowers are most beautiful when seen at night.

C. The simile comparing the daffodils to dancers implies that the speaker finds the flowers' movements beautiful.

D. The simile comparing the daffodils to dancers give the sense that the flowers are moving intentionally.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.