I would say that the narrative element used in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's short story "Peter" is <span>A) this excerpt shows the writer's use of figurative language to hold the reader's attention.
</span><span>I would choose this answer simply because the other ones seem incorrect - he doesn't develop Peter's character here. There are no flashbacks. And there is no conflict</span>
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Common sense - a book to persuade people to rally colonists around the idea of independence or to fight
Answer:
- Fused sentence.
Explanation:
'Fused sentence' is described as the type of run-on sentence in which two independent clauses run together(one after another) without any coordinating conjunction or marks of punctuation to keep the two ideas separate.
The given sentence exemplifies 'fused sentence' as it justifies the above definition where two independent clauses('My mother and father are both scientists' and ' it must have been my just need to become interested in biology') run together without employing any punctuation or conjunction to link them. The correct version could be:
'My mother and father are both scientists, so it must have been my destiny to become interested in biology.'
'My mother and father are both scientists; it must have been my destiny to become interested in biology.'
