How does Machiavelli’s use of words such as seizing, usurper, inflict, knife, win, reassure, and benefits affect the tone of the passage?

There are more words with negative ones than positive ones, creating a frightening tone.
There are more words with negative ones than positive ones, creating a threatening tone.
The words with positive connotations soften the ones with negative connotations to create a serious, matter-of-fact tone.
The words with positive connotations are used to create an encouraging tone.

Which tone best fits a business letter

Which statement best reflects how martin luther king, jr. uses rhetoric and style in paragraph 9 of "letter from a birmingham jail" to assist him in advocating the use of nonviolent direct action to achieve justice for negro citizens in birmingham? click here to read the letter.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme