The statement “to lose is a kind of death” is an example of the author’s emphasis on the:
a. extent of the emotional investment in sports.
b. importance of honoring losers as well as winners.
c. unacceptability of losing a sporting competition.
d. consequences of an exaggerated concern with sports.

A. Extent of the emotional investment in sports.

cassius, casca, and their allies plant false documents to manipulate brutus to join their cause to remove caesar. after doing so, they visit brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. there they plan caesar's death. brutus is troubled but refuses to confide in his devoted wife, portia. on 15 march, caesar's wife, calpurnia, urges him not to go to the senate. she has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.

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