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Vadim26 [7]
3 years ago
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Which is the topic sentence of the following paragraph?

English
1 answer:
djverab [1.8K]3 years ago
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Answer:

C. On the day of my piano recital, I was experiencing nervousness.

Explanation:

In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. <em>It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph</em>. Also known as a focus sentence, it encapsulates or organizes an entire paragraph.

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The entire poem has a sense of movement to it that reflects the speaker's desire to reunite with his love. The poem's meter and sound clearly denote a sense of pressing intent. Read it aloud to sense how the language is pushing ever forward, with three lines in the first stanza alone beginning with "And," as though to suggest that what is on the speaker's mind is never the moment he is in but rather the next thing, since the latter gets him closer to his lover. Technically, the meter is iambic tetrameter, though it is hardly strict, as should be expected in a poem that puts movement over order and contemplation.

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