How does the author’s diction affect the tone in this passage? Words like inhuman, cruelty, and terrible support a tone of fear. Words like wonderful, boundless, valour, revered, and virtues support a tone of admiration. Words like sufficient, enumerated, virtues, and dissensions support a critical tone. Words like dissensions, bad, inhuman, cruelty, and terrible support a tone of sorrow.

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Words like wonderful, boundless, valour, revered, and virtues support a tone of admiration

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The question refers to a passage from chapter 17 of The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, where he praises Hannibal, the commander of the army of Carthage that invaded the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.), for the control he had over his army. Although Hannibal was not able to conquer Rome, Machiavelli applauds his use of "cruelty" to keep his army under control, which can be inferred by his choice of words. The tone is one of admiration, not sorrow, fear, nor criticism.

Words like wonderful, boundless, valour, revered, and virtues support a tone of admiration!!!

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