What is the most likely meaning of incentive in this sentence from the selection from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad? She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.

The options to this question are the following:

1. motivation; encouragement

Explanation:

An incentive is something that motivates or encourages us to do something. We all have incentives to do the things we do, even if we do not even notice it. In the excerpt, the incentive or motivation of the slaves (to which the woman is referring to) to keep going is the thought or hope of getting to a warm place with good food.

the most likely reason why dante included the names of historical figures in his well-known masterpiece the divine comedy is because he was trying to expose his own historical judgement to the figures. he settles different characters of the occidental culture in parts of the hell, purgatory and paradise constituting a spiritual judgment according to his thought.

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