Read the passage from the war of the worlds. i turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but i ran slantingly and stumbling, for i could not avert my face from these things. the author uses paradox in the sentence to create a sense of . a. amusment b. curiosity c. excitment d. horror

D.

Explanation: In this passage from "The War of the Worlds", by H.G. Wells, the author uses paradox in the sentence to create a sense of horror. The narrator has just seen a living Martian. He was shocked by its nastiness.  He runs fast to escape the horror of this vision but he cannot turn away his eyes from this horrific monster. This is a paradox because it is the contrary of what is expected.

what can best be inferred from this excerpt is the pittsburgh pirates had a winning season in 1972., the specific information about the year is provided in the excerpt.

the other options are not correct because we can not assure that roberto clemente was the best since we don't know the information about the other players, there are no mentions about any specific fan either and it is clear that not many batters can make it to   3000 hits because it is mention as a high number.

i think its d

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