“one day, as i scanned the sandy expanse of northern africa, i couldn’t find any of the familiar landmarks—colorful outcroppings of rocks in chad, irrigated patches of the sahara. then i realized they were obscured by a huge dust storm, a cloud of sand that enveloped the continent from morocco to the sudan.”
this quote from “single room, earth view” suggest what kind of tone?

a. awe
b. boredom
c. isolation
d. sorrow

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This is the political, social, cultural, and economic 'time and place' surrounding the creation of a literary text.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”