Read the passage.

excerpt from Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

While I was there a pretty young girl was brought in. She had been sick, and she fought against being put in that dirty place. One night the nurses took her and, after beating her, they held her naked in a cold bath, then they threw her on her bed. When morning came the girl was dead. The doctors said she died of convulsions, and that was all that was done about it.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

How does this paragraph develop the author's claim in Ten Days in a Mad-House?


It offers the opinion of an expert—the doctor—to support the claim.


It uses rhetorical devices such as figurative language to appeal to readers' emotions.


It uses logical reasoning to support the author's claim.


It provides a specific, relevant example as evidence for the author's claim.