What is the purpose of a topic sentence?

to introduce the meaning in a paragraph in an interesting way
to provide evidence to support your ideas
to put the events in a paragraph into chronological order
to state your conclusion and summarize your ideas

Answer:

the first one

Explanation:

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Read this passage from the poem “Casey’s Revenge” and answer the question that follows.

“Just think,” said one, “ how soft it looked with Casey at the bat!
And then to think he’d go and spring a bush-league trick like that.”

Which type of figurative language is being used in this passage?
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification

Read this excerpt from the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death."

Three months before, we had been riveted by Clemente's pursuit of his 3,000th hit, a feat he accomplished on the last weekend of the 1972 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He became the 11th player and first Latino to reach the coveted mark, and the residents of this U.S. territory swelled with pride.

What can best be inferred from this excerpt?



The Pittsburgh Pirates had a winning season in 1972.
Roberto Clemente was his team’s best baseball player.
Roberto Clemente had a devoted fan following.
Many batters achieved 3,000 hits in 1972.

Claudine is of french descent and was born in paris near the eiffel tower. How many capitalization errors are in the sentence? *

69 points

Identify each definition as having either denotative or connotative meaning.
bark: a sharp
cry of a dog
youthful: energetic
chatty: to
talk a lot
jump: to push
oneself off a
surface

(URGENT PLS DO NOW!!!) Which action can someone take to cope with feelings or grief
-extra size less to conserve energy
-with draw from others
-keep feelings Private
-spend time with family and friends

Do you think the narrator of “The Outsider” is reliable? Why or why not?
(With evidence from the book included)

What is the main difference between exposition and introductory information?

the three elements
place vs. setting
key figures vs. characters
time vs. when

Dose the author of “The Outsider” use vivid words to describe dramatic sights,sounds, or feelings? (Provide examples)

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Read the paragraph from "Myths About the Founding Fathers."

Thomas Jefferson was NOT, however, the first person to introduce ice cream to the United States. Ice cream had been around for hundreds of years before Jefferson. A kind of ice cream was “invented” in China by mixing milk and rice into snow. Roman emperors used to serve flavored snow. King Charles I kept his ice cream recipe a secret from the rest of England. There’s no evidence to prove that Americans had to wait for Jefferson to come up with the idea before they could indulge in the popular treat. What was the truth? Jefferson liked to serve ice cream at his dinner parties. The rumor took off from there.

How does this paragraph fit in the overall structure of the text?

A. It describes how Jefferson's solution to a problem led to a made-up story about him.

B. It explains how stories about Jefferson have evolved over time.

C. It describes specific causes for a myth about Jefferson.

D. It compares a myth Jefferson to a real story about him.

(ANSWER QUICK)

what does priority mean

Talk to me a bit about Jonas’ character. How is he different from the “other” people in this society?
In Chapter 1 of The Giver By Lois Lowry

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Plz watch the movie breakthrough. Its a great movie and i just finished watching it and im balling my eyes out right now.

Dose the author of “The Outsider” use vivid words to describe dramatic sights,sounds, or feelings? (Provide examples)

In what way is the character Rikki-Tikki in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” similar to the character Casey in “Casey’s Revenge?

They both have their names in the title.
They are both archetypal heroes.
They are both bothered by the villains.
They are both on their own without any helpers.

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The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act" what is the central idea

What is the purpose of the subordinate conjunction Falthough It introduces the independent clause within the sentence introduces reason Tamaika decided go for a walk It signals that the sentence will explain why Tamanika did not go for a walk. signals that the sentence will explain what Tamanika despite the rain

Select all the correct answers.

Which two character types best fit this description of Penny?

Penny’s grandmother lived in an old house in a small town. Every summer, Penny’s parents would make Penny visit her grandmother. Penny didn’t like leaving her friends. She would rather spend her vacation going to the beach or watching movies. Her grandmother kept a small garden in the backyard. She always tried to teach Penny about gardening. Although not interested at first, Penny found growing vegetables, flowers, and fruits quite enjoyable. She also began to enjoy spending time with her grandmother. In the end, Penny began to look forward to visiting her grandmother each year.

antagonist
protagonist
foil
flat
dynamic

Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.


As he thought about the hieroglyphs in Thothmes' and Ramesses' names, Champollion realized their significance. It went far beyond the names themselves and gave him an insight into the entire system of hieroglyphic writing. For the names revealed that hieroglyphs were not simply representations of sounds. Nor did they have an exclusively symbolic meaning, as Thomas Young and other scholars had long believed. Instead, they were a combination of the two.


What type of reasoning is shown in the excerpt?


A:moving from the big picture of hieroglyphics being both representations of sounds and symbols to the details of Thothmes's and Ramesses's names

B:moving from the big picture of Thothmes's and Ramesses's names to the details of the hieroglyphic translations

C:moving from the details of the individual hieroglyphics to the big picture of hieroglyphics being both representations of sounds and symbols

D:moving from the details of hieroglyphic writing to the big picture of Thomas Young and other scholars

Please answer as soon as possible
If Carter’s research question is how did the Civil Rights Movement impact Americans, which outline title might you see in his outline?
Group of answer choices

Susan B. Anthony

President Obama

The 19th Amendment

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

As she uses this graphic organizer to help her prewrite the analysis, which idea should she write in the center bubble?

New Technology Leads to Bigger Cities

In the 1800s, the United States was still a very young nation, trying to solidify its identity. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, a fast development of society following the introduction of machines. The United States was slower than Great Britain to fully embrace the changes. Yet key technological developments caused a rapid growth in American urban areas.

Better farming methods and tools in the 1800s increased food production. Americans were able to grow enough food for their families as well as to sell. The abundance caused food prices to fall.

The expansion of cotton and the growth of textile factories in northern states helped produce the first wave of American industry. More people turned to work in northern factories as a way to support their families. Thousands of immigrants to the United States also settled in or near port cities, looking for work. Even today, the need for work is a common reason people move to urban areas.

As a result, cities grew in numbers of people and physical space. As more people and businesses moved in, they needed buildings for living and working. They needed ways to move around the city. We call this process urbanization.

In 1820, the United States had only a few cities of 10,000 residents or more. About seven percent of U.S. residents lived in urban areas. The number of cities with more than 10,000 people grew quickly over the next 40 years, especially in the Northeast and Midwest. By 1860, about 20 percent lived in cities. Philadelphia and New York City were the most populated cities in 1860 and would soon reach one million residents.

The urbanization of the United States quickened due to technology improvements. Without innovations in food production, the factories could not have grown so quickly. The trend quickened after 1860 and continued throughout the 21st century as well. By 2007, more Americans lived in or near cities than they did in rural areas.

Select a sentence from the body of this article that can be removed without affecting the author's explanation. Place the sentence in quotes and explain why it is an unnecessary detail. (25 points)

Read this excerpt from NASA's explanation of black holes. When you encounter a word you don't know, look for context clues that might help you define the word.

Scientists can't directly observe black holes with telescopes that detect X-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. We can, however, infer the presence of black holes and study them by detecting their effect on other matter nearby. If a black hole passes through a cloud of interstellar matter, for example, it will draw matter inward in a process known as accretion. A similar process can occur if a normal star passes close to a black hole. In this case, the black hole can tear the star apart as it pulls it toward itself. As the attracted matter accelerates and heats up, it emits X-rays that radiate into space. Recent discoveries offer some tantalizing evidence that black holes have a dramatic influence on the neighborhoods around them--emitting powerful gamma ray bursts, devouring nearby stars, and spurring the growth of new stars in some areas while stalling it in others.

Considering all of the context clues around the word telescopes, what can you assume that telescopes are able to do?

A)see black holes clearly

B)detect X-rays, light, and electromagnetic radiation

C)predict when a new black hole has formed

D)see gamma ray bursts

Who would be considered the antagonist (the bad guy or the person getting in the way of the protagonist) in the play?

a
Charlie
b
Don
c
Aliens
d
All three: Charlie, Don, and the aliens

“The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.” -Marlee Martin

In your own words, what does this quote mean to you?

hunter-gatherers, farmers?, both?

8. gathered and also started growing plants H? F? B?

9. began taming animals H? F? B?

10. located areas around estuaries to live H? F? B?

11. developed kilns to make clay pots and metal H? F? B?

PLEASE READ THIS ITS ATACTHMENT TO PART 1
Part 2
Buck : Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.

But he was thrown down and choked repeatedly, till they succeeded in filing the heavy brass collar from off his neck. Then the rope was removed, and he was flung into a cagelike crate. here he lay for the remainder of the weary night, nursing his wrath and wounded pride.

Buck: And each time the joyful bark that trembled in Buck’s throat was twisted into a savage growl.

But the saloon-keeper let him alone and he could not understand what it all meant. What did they want with him, these strange men? Why were they keeping him pent up in this narrow crate? He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of impending calamity and in the morning four men entered and picked up the crate.

Whereupon he lay down sullenly and allowed the crate to be lifted into a wagon. Then he, and the crate in which he was imprisoned, began a passage through many hands

. Clerks in the express office took charge of him; he was carted about in another wagon; a truck carried him, with an assortment of boxes and parcels, upon a ferry steamer; he was trucked off the steamer into a great railway depot, and finally he was deposited in an express car.

For two days and nights this express car was dragged along at the tail of shrieking locomotives; and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank. In his anger he had met the first advances of the express messengers with growls, and they had retaliated by teasing him.
He flung himself against the bars, quivering and frothing. He did not mind the hunger so much, but the lack of water caused him severe suffering and fanned his wrath to fever pitch.

Buck:That had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. They would never get another rope around his neck.

His eyes turned bloodshot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend.

Four men gingerly carried the crate from the wagon into a small, high-walled backyard. A stout man, with a red sweater that sagged generously at the neck, came out and signed the book for the driver.

That was the man, Buck divined, the next tormentor, and he hurled himself savagely against the bars. The man smiled grimly, and brought a hatchet and a club

.Driver: “You ain’t going to take him out now?”

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