Instructions: select the correct text in the passage.

which line in this excerpt from “the gun” by philip k. is an example of euphemism?

the captain peered into the eyepiece of the telescope. [he adjusted the focus quickly.]

"it was an atomic fission we saw, all right," he said presently. he sighed and pushed the eyepiece away. "any of you who wants to look may do so.[ but it's not a pretty sight."]

"let me look," tance the archeologist said. he bent down to look, squinting. "good lord! " [he leaped violently back], knocking against dorle, the chief navigator.

"why did we come all this way, then? " dorle asked, looking around at the other men. "there's no point even in landing. let's go back at once."

"perhaps he's right," the biologist murmured. ["but i'd like to look for myself, if i may.]" he pushed past tance and peered into the sight.

It is much safer to be feared than loved. . 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 . . but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. . that it is true his other virtues would not have been sufficient for him may be proved by the case of scipio, that most excellent man . . his army rebelled in spain; this arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli which words in the passage have negative connotations?inhuman, cruelty, rebelled how do the words with negative connotations support the claim?by defining the actions of a leader who is to be feared