The topic sentence for the paragraph above is A. Sentence 1. A topic sentence is supposed to give the general idea of a paragraph. Sentence 1 briefly describes what and where plates are in the Earth's crust. The rest of the sentences give more detail about tectonic plates.
<em>The Skin I'm In is a realistic fiction novel written by Sharon G. Flake. It was published by Hyperion Books on January 3, 2000. It depicts the story of seventh-grader Maleeka Madison who has low self-esteem because of her dark skin color.</em>
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Let's organize this out a bit.
The passage states:
W<span>hen the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the eye,
And the silver note in the streamlets throat has softened,
Almost to a sigh.
It is July.
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According to this passage, all these words are using sensory language. I</span><span>t appeals to hearing by suggesting the creek is mostly quite because the heat of summer has dried up its water
Answer: Choice C
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The revision which most effectively corrects the faulty parallelism in the above sentence is:
C. The novel is about a woman who is young, poor, and hardworking.
Parallelism is the use of same components, forms or ideas which are the same or are similar in a sentence. It adds rhythm to the sentences and helps in specifying the ideas more because it involves repetition of ideas or words. The repetition of the words in the lines or parallelism makes an idea or argument more specific and clearer.
B. Because the internets not always right