Each of the following is a step for beginning a persuasive essay except:
a.) the writer must choose a topic.
b.) the writer must form a thesis statement.
c.) the writer must be prepared to read his essay out loud.
d.) the writer must do appropriate supporting research.

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?