Which two pieces of background information are important to know about your audience?

A) whether the audience consists of more men or women

B) what their attitude is about the topic

C) how they arrived at the presentation location

D) how old they are

in the introduction of an Indian father's plea how does the author show his belief that the teacher does not truly know his son

Read the following passage: Destra twirled the gold necklace in her fingers. The quiet of her apartment was momentarily broken by the sound of a distant siren.

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early

What is your intepretation of the purpose of "Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature?" A) The purpose of the New York Times article "Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature" is to explain why Lessing is overrated as a writer.

Which story line primarily concerns external conflict? In "Two Friends," one man must decide between his own personal safety and the safety of his friend.

Fords Grapes of wrath is more conservative than the novel from which it is adapted, chiefly because, in the film, A. Tom Joad is trying to get a union started among California grape pon B.

What does the red proofreading symbol indicate to the writer?

Read the excerpt from Part 4 of The Odyssey. As long as bread and good red wine remained to keep the men up, and appease their craving, they would not touch the cattle.

Which of these excerpts BEST captures the main idea of the speech? " ... more than three million Japanese lost their lives on the OA) battlefield ... " " ... I hereby express my profound remorse together with my sincere mourning ...

How can this thesis statement be improved?