What is true about the thesis statement? A. It always appears at the beginning of the paragraph. B. It supports the main idea with facts and evidence. C. It states the main message of the essay. D. It always poses a question.

Read this dialogue. May: My piano recital is next week. It's too soon! I haven't perfected the piece yet, and I don't have anything appropriate to wear. Mother: Oh, no! That is soon. Which night? May: Thursday night at the cultural arts center.

In " I Am Offering This Poem", Jimmy Santiago Baca uses the simile "like a pair of thick socks / the cold cannot bite through." What does the simile show he wants for the poem's subject?

Describe a few characteristics of Modern literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from either Crane's "The Bride Comes to yellow Sky," Yeats' "Second Coming," Frost's "Death of a Hired Man," or

What is most likely Betty Smith purpose in writing the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Read these sentences from "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" by Ovid . At last he saw the feathers floating on the water. "Ill-fated arts!" he lamented, wishing he had never possessed the skill to allow them to fly.

I saw it, and told John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court: and now has he land and beefs.

Which of the following was NOT a reason Wordsworth wrote "Preface to Lyrical Ballads?" A. an introduction to lyric poetry B. a systematic defens C. a manifesto D. a prose

What plays an important role in AIC idea of social class

Which statement best describes the impact of rhetorical techniques in this excerpt?

To Possess again would be to _Possess.