For Item Nos. 22-24: Read the statements below. Identify the emotive words that show persuasion.
Example: The gusty wind howled in the middle of night. Answer: gusty, howled

22. Banks will slash interest on loans during the bleakest time of the pandemic.
A. banks, loans
B. interest, banks
C. slash, bleakest
D. slash, pandemic

23. The old and scruffy mendicant led a despondent and pitiable life in a dilapidated shanty in the garbage site.
A. old, scruffy, mendicant
B. mendicant, despondent, pitiable, shanty
C. mendicant, despondent, pitiable, garbage site
D. old, scruffy, despondent, pitiable, dilapidated

24. An innocent 16-year-old girl was ravished in the cold and dark alley in Manila.
A. innocent, dark
B. innocent, ravished
C. innocent, ravished, dark
D. innocent, ravished, cold, dark​