Which sentence best describes the relationship between a counterclaim and a rebuttal? 1. A counterclaim states both a reason and evidence to support a claim, which a rebuttal rejects to show a second opinion about the claim. 2. A counterclaim states the limitations of the central claim, which a rebuttal acknowledges and clarifies using evidence to support the claim. 3. A counterclaim states another version of the central claim, which a rebuttal compares to the original claim. 4. A counterclaim states an opposing viewpoint to the claim, which a rebuttal fairly and logically addresses.

The theme of the first seven years is consistent with characteristics of the time in which it was written. what is consistent about the era and the story’s plot?

Understand that amassed in paragraph 3 means

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive