What are the word choices for each menu?
Answer:
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he
summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court,
and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys
Explanation:
The excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death" best shows Prince Prospero's self-centeredness is option D.
This is because even in the face of a plague that was killing people, Prince Prospero called a feast to celebrate and he was happy that his feast was well attended without caring about their safety, or for that matter, his.
The paragraph that provides the best variety in sentence patterns is B. my cousin the one who lives in Japan just sent me a text message she is excited about traveling and mentioned she would like to see various places including New York and the Grand Canyon.
In this paragraph, the use of compound and complex sentences make it more varied than the other options. In the first sentence, the word <em>who</em> introduces a dependent clause within the main clause that is <em>my cousin sent me a text message.</em> The second sentence is a compound sentence since it contains two Verbal phrases, <em>mentioned and would like to see</em>, joined by the connector <em>and. </em>
I believe that the answer is C. This is most likely the best option because it also adds a subject. B does add a better description but putting "While I" in answer C shows who is listening to the sentence