Read the excerpt from “The Lady, or the Tiger?”In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric.

The excerpt uses precise adjectives to characterize the king’s ideas as “large, florid, and untrammeled.” It also uses vivid verbs—“polished” and “sharpened”—to describe how those ideas were affected by neighboring cultures. So the best choice is “precise adjectives and strong verbs.”

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