Answer:
The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.
Explanation:
I’d say:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of “Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks” because the rest of the punctuations doesn’t make sense.
But actually it should be:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
(Without the quotation marks and inclusion the word “and” before “Gwendolyn”)
Motivational assertion is the correct answer. It is an intrinsic motivation to have autonomy and self determination.