The wealthy and fashionable East Egg residents hide their unattractive qualities underneath light, dreamy appearances.
Answer:
B. As in most traditional plays, the plot of act 1 of Beyond the Horizon is designed to provide exposition and build up the tension of the play.
Explanation:
Option B is correct, as there is exposition of the play’s main themes;
a) The urge to follow one’s dreams
b) The complex father/son relation
c) Husband/wife relation
d) Love triangle of Robert Mayo, Andrew Mayo, and Ruth Atkins.
Act 1 also serves as an exposition to the main internal conflicts of the play among following one’s dreams, desires, and destiny and external conflict between father and son.
Option A is not correct because Act 1 of “Beyond the Horizon” is not just a short prologue, but rising action or exposition of the play.
Option C is not correct, as neither in most traditional plays nor in “Beyond the Horizon” is the main conflict brought to a head.
Option D is not correct because in “Beyond the Horizon” Act 1 is just exposition of the internal and external conflicts of the play - we are nowhere near the resolution of the conflicts.
The anwer is D) My primary quibble with ear buds is that they are very distracting devices and are therefore dangerous.
This is the sentence that would best serve as a topic sentence for this passage. In the passage, the author focuses on the fact that ear buds can be very distracting. He presents several examples of why this is the case. Moreover, he argues that ear buds can be dangerous, for example, when someone is driving. Option D discusses both of these facts, and therefore, fits the best with the paragraph.
Answer:
d) Chronological order.
Explanation:
Chronological order is the style of narration that tells the events in the order of their occurrence, i.e. in sequence. This means that the narration talks about things from the earliest to the latest.
In the given passage about Aussie actress Nicole Kidman, the narrator uses the chronological order of arranging the ideas. The narration talks of the actress's achievements from 1995 to 2003, sequencing the years in order.
Thus, the correct answer is option d.
