Hey there! Let's get this question answered!
First, let's go over your question to find what we're looking for.
<span>Randy is trying to determine the central idea of an informational text. What question should he ask himself?
The bolded words are what we are looking for. This question is asking us, "In order to find the central(main) idea of an informational text, what should be asked in order to find it?"
Now that we know that let's read over the answer choices! Remember we are looking for the central(main idea) for an INFORMATIONAL TEXT!
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A.) Where does the text take place?
-Though this is informational, I don't see what this has to do with the main idea of the text. This is incorrect.
B.)What is the main message of the text?
-This is asking what the main message of the text is. Which, sounds an awful lot like what we are looking for. This is your answer!
C.) What is the author’s attitude toward his or her topic?
-Emotion of the text should not matter here, since we are looking for the central idea of an informational text so C is incorrect.
D.)What examples of the topic does the author include?
</span><span>-Why would we need examples when trying to determine the central idea? This is incorrect.
Your answer is B! </span>
It makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful
Myriad - extreme in number
Asserts - state a fact confidently
Egregious - outstandingly bad
Erroneous - wrong
Engenders - to give rise to
Salient - notable or important
Galvanize - shock or excite
Substantiate - to provide evidence of the truth
Caustic - able to burn or corrode organic tissue with chemical
Elucidate - to make clear
Perfunctory - carried out with a little effort or reflection.
I think it's C but I'm not sure. that is the option that makes the most sense to me. let me know if I was right please or if wrong tell me what was right. I'm pretty sure though that c is correct though.
<span>Mark Twain was impressed by the river chariots in Hannibal and deeply desired to someday, become a steamboat captain. Twain eventually managed to acquire an apprenticeship with a steamboat captain.
In Twain's writing of the Mississippi river that borders Hannibal, he claimed that he was highly impressed and fascinated by the Mississippi river itself, its immensity as well as the people/ workers who populated the steamboats on the river. </span>
