Nhận biết (M1)

The following text is from Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Douglass describes the effect of learning to read.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text?

• A.

  It introduces a claim about the consequences of literacy that the rest of the passage develops.

• B.

  It concedes a limitation in the author's argument about the value of education.

• C.

  It offers a neutral definition of a term the author uses later in the passage.

• D.

  It shifts the passage's focus from the author's own experience to that of others.