This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B. Part A
Which statement describes how the narrator feels about the work of a scrivener?
A) He feels it is intense and stressful work.
B) He feels it is necessary but boring work,
C) He feels it is exciting and rewarding work.
D) He feels it is redundant but enjoyable work.
Part B
Select a sentence that supports the answer in Part A.
"It is, of course, an indispensable part of a scrivener's business to verify the accuracy of
his copy, word by word. Where there are two or more scriveners in an office, they assist each
other in this examination, one reading from the copy, the other holding the original. It is a very
dull, wearisome, and lethargic affair. ...
Now and then, in the haste of business, it had been my habit to assist in comparing some
brief document myself, calling Turkey or Nippers for this purpose. One object I had in placing
Bartleby so handy to me behind the screen, was to avail myself of his services on such trivial
occasions." (paragraphs 2-3)
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Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)