Homework Help: English

Posted by Anonomous on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 6:16pm.

Which element of Thoreau's style is shown in these passages from Walden? Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand …. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five ….

A. using themes from the kitchen
B. repeating main ideas
C. using only short sentences

I think it's A am I right?

English - Ms. Sue, Friday, June 1, 2012 at 6:18pm
Nope.
English - Anonomous, Friday, June 1, 2012 at 6:30pm
Its B
English - Ms. Sue, Friday, June 1, 2012 at 6:35pm
Yes. Thoreau repeated main ideas.

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