They found a note from a traveler who had gone on the marked trail, telling them to take a different and safer route if they could.
Answer:
Form
Explanation:
It isn't theme. Theme is the message of a passage or text. (Not to be confused with main idea, which is the the overall point the passage or text was written. ) It isn't figurative language, because that is a whole <em>type </em>of writing structure. (For example, instead of saying, "She felt sick and dizzy," you could use figurative language and say, "Her legs felt like cooked spaghetti noodles and her stomach started doing somersaults." Heck, it's a little crazy, but it makes the writing better. Lastly, it isn't plot, since plot is pretty much what <em>happens</em> in the story. I would call it conflict, but it isn't always problems. Maybe a girl finds her long-lost father. That would be part of the plot but not conflict. (Well, I guess it <em>could</em> cause some conflict if you think about it.
So, long story short, the answer is form.
Callahan was huddled in a cavern near the Pacific Ocean when the Feds closed in. There were still shreds of human flesh under his fingernails when the serial killer surrendered to the inevitable capture. They could put him behind bars, he vowed as they dragged him down the narrow path toward the waiting cars, but he would escape. And then they'd be sorry. He lashed out at the nearest officer, landing a crippling blow on his kneecap. The remaining men knocked him to the ground and bound him foot and hand to ensure his cooperation.
He was sentenced to a lonely prison for the criminally insane; his only companions the wardens and fellow madmen. Over the next seventeen years, Callahan spent every spare second planning his escape. He studied every weakness in the prison system. He knew every guards movements. He spent several years contriving to get a ground-floor cell so he could dig his way out. That plan nearly succeeded, until he reached bedrock a few feet below the cell floor. With every failed plan, his anger grew. He would escape this wretched cell if it killed him.
1. word
2.midterm
3. shirt
4.return
5.nerve
6.stern
7. spurts
8.verse
9.thirst
10.swerve
11.work
12.squirm
13.spur
14.squirt
15.lurk
16.surf
17.learning
18.blurt
19.yearns
20.lurch
Answer:
his participation in the event was required, compulsory, essential, mandatory