Which option best revises the sentence to convey the same meaning using more precise language?
A long time ago, people didn't want to eat tomatoes because they grew
on a plant that looked like another plant that was bad for you.
A. A long time ago, you did not eat tomatoes because you worried
they were poisonous because they looked like another unhealthy
plant.
B. In the early 1800s, people did not eat tomatoes because tomato
plants resembled poisonous deadly nightshade plants.
c. Tomatoes were not eaten in the 1800s for the reason that people
worried it was a relative of another plant, deadly nightshade, which
would make you sick if you partook of it.
D. Tomatoes were considered bad in the 1800s because people
thought they were poisonous.

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

Reading plus level g answers for the legendary loshu

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.