Answer:
The quote from Mark Twain that has a serious tone is:
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Explanation:
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear" is a serious quote. Twain is honestly explaining what he thinks of courage and fear, of their connection. His opinion is that being brave does not necessarily mean being fearless, but moving ahead in spite of fear.
However, when we take a look at the other quotes, we realize they were written in a humorous manner. Speaking of a summer as if it were winter, playing with the meanings of mind and matter, and advising someone to distort facts are all unexpected and funny topics, none of which can be taken seriously.
Drama usually indicates a piece of writing that is intended to be acted out - a performance on a stage of some sort with people acting as the characters in the story, allowing an audience to see the action unfold.
Poetry is frequently written with a particular awareness of the sound of the language being used. Poetry may or may not rhyme but the rhythm of the language will be of central importance and the author may have spent extra time working to achieve carefully crafted, vivid word pictures.
Short stories are just that - stories that are of a length that would ideally allow them to be read from start to finish in one sitting.
These can overlap - poetry can be presented as a dramatic play; a short story may be written in poetic form, etc. The three formats are different but not exclusive types of literature, presenting stories in three different formats.
Answer:
Yes.
Explanation:
The main concern of the writer - or the topic sentence - which is stated in the first sentence, is that <u>keeping his or her mind when writing is not easy when they are staying at their grandmother's cottage</u>. We are then treated with several sentences explaining why it is hard, with various distractions that the author willingly or unwittingly found themselves in.
The final sentence supports this topic sentence since what the author is writing in her or his typewriter remains discontinued since they are too preoccupied with other things to finish their work.
It is a figure of speech. Obviously they hadn't actually been on the verge of cutting each other's throats, it's a fancy way of saying they were all very angry and couldn't stand each other. The author's purpose was to imply that before something happened, they were very angry and unable to stand each other.
Answer: Our paper's science writer, whose column I read every week, recently reported on exoplanets.
Explanation: There are three ideas here.
1. Our paper's science writer
2. They recently reported on exoplanets
3. How I read their column every week.
Two of the ideas are included in the sentence (1 and 2), and the last simply needs to be modified.
"Whose" is a determiner and associates things with other things. In the last idea, we associate their column to them: whose column... Then, we add how I read it every week and say, "...whose column I read every week."
