English

Alyvia Nguyen

12 July, 19:08

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

When they had traveled about one hundred fifty million leagues, they met with the satellites of Jupiter. They

stopped at Jupiter and stayed for a week, during which time they learned some very wonderful secrets that

would have been forthcoming in print if not for the inquisition, which found some of the propositions to be a

little harsh.

In the Micromegas excerpt above, the tone can best be described as

paradoxical

dogmatic

hyperbolic