English

Noel Crawford

17 August, 22:27

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates-died of malnutrition-because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

Which best describes how the diction supports the tone of this passage?

A. The phrase "died of malnutrition" communicates the author's sadness about the children's dying of pellagra.

B. The author uses irony to show the absurdity of malnourished children dying when food is plentiful.

C. The words "crime" and "denunciation" reveal the author's outrage toward the wasting of food.

D. The author repeats the phrase "There is" to create parallelism and reinforce the idea of loss.