to teach morals by dramatizing the lives of saints and church leaders
to increase the common people's interest in and understanding of religious ideas
to popularize the classical language of Latin among the people
First of all, trope is a figurative language using images, words or phrases to convey the creative work. Medieval texts used the rhetoric in liturgy. The main reason is to teach morals by dramatizing the lives of saints and church leaders. There is a ritual chant in Judaism called trope which does not have to be mixed with this.
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The room was dark musty and the general aura of the room felt tragic. There was nobody in there. Just a man. One man, Muttering to himself nonsense. He seemed lost, just sitting there. There were strange assortments of unpleasant dolls and toys along with broken ritualistic things piled in a dirty old garbage can in the corner of the room. It was hard to see it. Yet so noticable. The mans eyes were sunken in and his mutterings told me he was in a dark place he couldn't get his mind out of. He looked up at me and his seemed to be begging me never to end up like him and to help him. I looked in the uncomfortable room once and decided I would ignore him. I probably should have helped the old man, but I didn't. I guess I was being ignorant...
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I felt very dizzy and decided to go for a walk at midnight. As soon as I slammed the heavy oak door, I felt as if I was being followed. The wind seemed to be speaking to me, but I did not know what it was telling me. I walked past a lone alley and saw an old man murmuring to himself. I walked into the alley for a closer look when, suddenly, the old man looked at me. The last thing I saw before the handkerchief closed around my mouth was the triumphant grin of an evil old man.
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The unnecessary adjective in the sentence is "huge".
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"Huge" is redundant in this sentence because it means the same as "torrent". On the one hand, "torrent" refers to "a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid" or to "an overwhelming outpouring of (something)". On the other hand, "huge" means "extremely large, enormous". As you can see, they both make reference to the same meaning component "something being extremely big and of great importance".
The wind and the sun are finite.
The earth will last forever.
The sea and sky will cease someday.
The answer is D. They deepen the poem's sorrowful mood.