<span>a device or instrument designed to detect the presence of a particular object or substance and to emit a signal in response.</span>
C. using evidence to support
Answer:While making a summary it is very important to keep a few things in mind. Some of them are 1. Carefully select the theme of the passage 2. Read with who, what, when, where, why, and how questions in mind 3. Do not rewrite the original text 4. Leave no scope for confusion 5. Include all the main ideas 6. Do not include any unnecessary or repetitive sentences 7. Do not make any assumptions 8. The length of the summary must not exceed 25 percent of the original text 9. Do not change the original source.
"Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop
In this poem, Bishop tells her own story. Her father died when she was a child and her mother never recovered from a nervous breakdown. Bishop had to live with older relatives for many many years.
In the poem, the grandma feels sadness because of the whole situation and because of the innocence of the child but she hides her sadness by laughing and talking to the child.
<em>"reading the jokes from the almanac, </em>
<em>laughing and talking to hide her tears."</em>
<em>-Sestina </em>
Why does the grandmother laugh and talk?
A. to entertain the almanac
B. to hide her tears
C. to entertain the child to make the time pass
