A topic sentence is effective when it

a. presents a very broad topic.

b. presents a very important topic and relates it to everyone in the world.

c. is a very long sentence.

d. states a limited topic and a controlling idea.

Change the sentence to a command. Start the command with Let's. I want us to watch a movie tonight.

Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.

Like painters constantly retouching their work, we alter, update, and tweak our online self-portraits; but as digital objects they are far more ephemeral than oil on canvas.

Which word best describes the overall tone of the novel The Secret Garden? miserable spooky hopeful bored

In literature, rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words is called

Which of the following events caused Britain to fight in WW1

Emily's house lies on the San Andreas Fault, and she wants to protect herself against earthquakes. What is one step she can take?

Read the excerpt from A Rumor of War. We left Vietnam peculiar creatures, with young shoulders that bore rather old heads. What is the author attempting to convey to the reader using sensory language? Only old men were allowed to fight in the war.

The novel form is most closely related to what writing form that came before it? poetry romances short stories

What is a couplet, in the context of a Shakespearean sonnet? a) the final two lines b) any two lines that rhyme c) two adjacent syllables in which the first syllable is stressed d) two adjacent syllables in which the second syllable is stressed