Explanation:
S.E. Hinton uses a variety of literary devices to make The Outsiders an interesting read. Some of these include alliteration, foreshadowing, hyperbole, irony, personification, simile, and metaphor. Alliteration includes the repetition of similar sounds.
<span>C. Fictional author </span>
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The short italicized sections of the book contain the
introduction of the ‘author’ of the book who establishes himself as a character
in the text. It tells of his travels and adventures in the hopes of publishing
a book. He already had two books that flunked and thus he traveled to Bombay.
Here he became dejected as his goal to write about Portugal did not
materialize. He wandered through India and reached the town of Pondicherry
which was once controlled by the French Empire. He met Francis Adirubasamy who
became a pivotal character and started the ball rolling to create a book that
is ‘nonfiction’; fact that was
reestablished in other parts of the book with the same fashion. </span>
<u>Answer:</u>
<em>The most effective way to vary the sentence patterns in the passage is to begin sentences with different parts of speech. </em>
<em>Option D is the correct answer. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
After reading and observing the passage, it is evident that the word ‘pug’ is repeated in every line. Using the same noun in different sentences that are talking about the same subject, makes the sentence formation clumsy. It can be easily replaced by a pronoun (parts of speech) after its use in the starting sentence. Also, the sentences would sound better.
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