Answer:
It presents background information needed to understand the text.
Explanation:
In the given story about how the narrator Noah was made to write a B & B letter by his mother to his grandparents. This led to the conflict of interest between the two as regards the issue of writing such a letter which he is not familiar with.
The first paragraph of the text reveals the background of how the letter came to be the main issue between the mother and her son. It presents the background information that reveals the main conflict between the two, without which we the readers, will be unable to understand the whole story.
Thus, the correct answer is the first option.
Answer: Good and evil
Explanation: A story usually has an antagonist - (its a good character) and a protagonist (evil side). Try some fairy tales like Cinderella! The stepmother and her daughters are the protagonists and Cinderella, the kingdom's rulers and the godmother are antagonists.
The point of an "Entertain speech" is, of course, to be entertaining. The best answer for this would be "The best thing about being a twin" because the rest of the options are examples of "Informative speech".
Answer:
<u>The yellow fever epidemic had lasting consequences for the city.</u>
Explanation:
This is the best answer because the passage is about the deadly and lasting consequences that yellow fever had: the author mentions that an approximate of five thousand people were victims of it, many died, including people like ministers, sextons, and city officials; and those who did not die, had to flee the city. Such mortality rate and mass departure must have changed completely the way people lived back then, it should have been catastrophic for the city, as the author concludes: <em>The fear had gone too deep, the losses were all too real and personal. </em>
