I wrote two for you :)
This mystery is who killed one of the characters teachers, who was very dear to them. The character leaves the classroom to go to the bathroom, and when they come back their teacher was dead on the floor with stab wounds. They look around the classroom, who was in pure shock. They scan the classrom to find that 5 students have fleed. They wait until the next day at school to see the 5 students. They pull the students aside at lunch break, and ask them questions about the teacher and what they were doing during all of that. One students answers, "I was going to get some water." Another answers, "I was going to the bathroom." Two answer, "I was going to return my book to the library." And the last one answers, "I was going to get a teacher." They immediately knew who'd killed the teacher, because they went to the bathroom themselves and no one else was there except for them.
Here's a more lighthearted one, this mystery is who broke the lamp in the kitchen. The character leaves the house to go to school, and when they come back, they find that the lamp in the kitchen was broken. They call over their family. "Who broke the lamp?" they ask. They all point fingers at each other. Person A points at Person C, the girl. Person B points at Person A, the boy. Person C points at Person B, the baby. The character immediately knew who did it because the baby stayed in its crib the whole day and couldnt get out. They were also too weak to break the lamp. Person C has broken the lamp.
Sorry, can you give a little more context. I believe you forgot to add an attachment file or some sort.
<span>for 17 the third on is wrong because of the punctuation. 19 i believe the correct answer is the 2nd one, for 18 it is the first one and finally for 20 it is the 4th one because the semicolon joins two independent clauses. Hope this helps!</span>
Answer:
HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHERS by Mark Twain
Paragraph 5 stated that "The humorous story is told gravely." This statement narrows the author's main idea on "How to tell a story and others" to how a humorous story can be told. This means that the author's specific purpose for writing this short story was to explain how to tell a humorous story. Since this was not stated initially, the author decided to refine his main idea in this paragraph by stating clearly that "the humorous story is told gravely." This assertion helps the storyteller to conceal the funny aspect from their audience. He then differentiates telling a humorous story from a comic and witting stories.
Explanation:
Mark Twain wrote "How to Tell a Story and Others" in 1897 to inspire writers and other storytellers that in telling their stories they should be mindful of the type of storytelling that their audience like. Moreover, in the storytelling they must be resilient enough to hide the funny nature of the story while they are narrating it. The overall purpose is to enable their audience to have the last laugh. According to him, this makes telling a humorous storytelling a job for an artist.
