The correct answer, in my opinion, is A. The question of <em>When did the oral tradition begin? </em> would help the writer to narrow the focus of the paper.
In the case of questions B and D they are not related to the main topic of the paper. On the contrary, one of them focuses on the steam drill and the other on the melody of folk songs, neither of which are of great importance to the main aim of the paper which is to explore the historical background of the folk songs about John Henry.
In the case of C, I consider that it is not important whether John Henry was a real person or not. It's not the point of the piece of writing to arrive at that conclusion. Yet, it is more related to the topic than the other two questions.
In order to help the writer to narrow the scope of what is written, we should focus on the goal of the paper that is to deal with the question of <em>how folk songs about this subject have developed over time</em>. And for that purpose, trying to trace the beginning of the oral tradition is the best option to keep focused.
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Lincoln used rhetorical appeals to move the audience into not giving up hope and to ensure a vision of unified United States for all citizens based on freedom and democracy. Lincoln delivered one of the most inspirational and powerful speech in American history.
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1. he is curoius about the world around him.
2. "'What are moon-letters?' asked the hobbit full of excitement. He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also liked runes and letters and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery.
'Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them,' said Elrond, 'not when you look straight at them. They can only be seen when the moon shines behind them, and what is more, with the more cunning sort it must be a moon of the same shape and season as the day when they were written.'"
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"'Is that The Mountain?' asked Bilbo in a solemn voice, looking at it with round eyes. He had never seen a thing that looked so big before.
'Of course not!' said Balin. 'That is only the beginning of the Misty Mountains, and we have got to get through, or over, or under those somehow, before we can come into Wilderland beyond. And it is a deal of a way even from the other side of them to the Lonely Mountain in the East where Smaug lies on our treasure.'"
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