I believe fused sentence would be the answer. Because “the mayor...” and “the local classic car auction...” could be two separate stand alone sentences but they were incorrectly fused together by a comma.
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<span>One of the purposes of Mark Twain’s “Taming the Bicycle” is to entertain the reader. Which sentence in this excerpt uses humor to achieve this purpose?
</span><span>We got up a handsome speed, and presently traversed a brick, and I went out over the top of the tiller and landed, head down, on the instructor's back, and saw the machine fluttering in the air between me and the sun.</span>
I think the correct answer is the first option. The novel form is most closely related to poetry writing form. Novel are fictional stories that are lengthy while poetry can be fictional or non-fictional and are written relatively shorter. Both of them narrates a story in an artistic form.