One purpose of ""The Beginnings of the Maasai"" is to explain the weather which excerpt best justifies this conclusion?

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This excerpt is an example of a claim of a. fact b. policy c. value d. definition

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile