D. Several factors led to the beginning of World War I.
The topic sentence from the passage shows us that it follows a cause and effect pattern. It sets the reader up to understand that the rest of the passage will be about several factors that caused World War I. The rest of the options are the different factors that led to World War I. They do not use key words that would indicate a cause and effect patterns like the words "Several" and "led" do in the first sentence.
The following structural elements best support the interpretation that the rain is a powerful force in the narrator's life:
C. The onomatopoeia and the couplet.
The couple is what closes the poem. It emphasizes rain’s presence on the poem as the rhyme of the couplet is the word ‘rain’.
Council claims that 25 percent<span> of the world's population has some understanding of English.</span>
