The correct answer is A) IRRELEVANT AND SHOULD BE REVISED OR DELETED.
Topics sentences should support the thesis statement, so their relation with it should be clear and concise. Afterwards, each topic sentence can be further explained, exemplified or expanded. However, first of all topic sentences must summarize the main idea of the paragraph and show how it is related to the thesis statement.
do you have a list of the following options?
A=Edgar Poe didn't write "just anything" that would sell. If he did that, we probably wouldn't have ever heard of him for several reasons which are ultimately unimporatant to this question.
B=He claimed his first love was poetry, and he considered himself a poet before a regular, ordinary writer, but given the way the choices are worded, I'd say that B is still, with this in consideration, not the answer.
C=Edgar Poe did fabricate his personal life one time, when he created a backstory for his alias Arthur Gordon Pym.
D=True, he did invent it before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ripped off Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin.
E=Edgar Allan Poe was never insane. He was not that kind of man. He was more philosophical and aristocratic. Although in his youth he had toyed with an alcohol vice, he overcame it in his later years. He is only (and falsely) known for an alcoholic past because after Poe died, Poe's editor, Rufus Griswald slandered Poe and re-wrote Poe's biography, altering history away from the truth. Edgar Poe was never the "madman-alcoholic" that some people wrongfully believe he was.
What this excerpt reveals about the narrator of the story is that <u>i</u><span><u>t describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
</u>The narrator is visiting his old friend in his creepy mansion where his sister died and came to life. So for a couple of days, they didn't talk about her death at all. <u>
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