Which situation in the play best shows the use of language to gain power over another person?
a. when caliban curses miranda for teaching him english, he sends her into a rage.
b. when ariel requests his freedom from prospero, his friendly tone causes prospero to change his mind about freeing him.
c. when stephano and trinculo fight about caliban, they use their words to anger each other.
d. when antonio suggests to sebastian the plot to murder alonso, he gains influence over sebastian's thoughts.

The situation in the play that best shows the use of language to gain power over another person is :

When Antonio suggests to Sebastian the plot to murder Alonso, he gains influence over Sebastian's thoughts.

The play “Tempest” by Shakespeare has been spoken about in the question.

Sebastian is the brother of Alonso. Since, Antonio plots to murder his brother, he also influences Sebastian to plot to murder Alonso. They plot the murder when Gonzalo and Alonso would be in fast asleep. In order to become the King of Naples, Sebastian plots the murder.

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.

basic principle: a pronoun usually refers to something earlier in the text (its antecedent) and must agree in number — singular/plural — with the thing to which it refers. the indefinite pronouns anyone, anybody, everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, no one, and nobody are always singular.