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Think of the main idea as an —umbrella“ idea. It is the author's primary point about a topic. All other material in the paragraph fits under the main idea. In a paragraph, authors often present the main idea to readers in a single sentence called the topic sentence.
The meaning of the phrase "thou art wedded to calamity" is that you often have disaster around you.
Calamity means disaster.
a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering.
Answer:
"The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice."
Explanation:
The lines "The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice." gives the reader information about the location of the story. This is because the other lines discuss only about how the place looks like.
The narrator mentions the location as Yukon which is about a mile wide and hidden under three feet of pure white ice. He further explains Yukon as a cold and strange place which was hundreds of miles away from other places.
Where's the example that was given? I would love to help but didn't see an example.