The "lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Theme: someone who is blamed for the evils of a society and banished in order to expel sin and allow for renewal.
Theme sentence: The danger of tradition and blindly following along is not always a good idea
Answer:
d
Explanation:
Edgar Allan Poe discusses the "unity of effect" in his essay The Philosophy of Composition. In it, he argues that the writer should decide what the dominant effect of his text will be, and he should then ensure that all the elements of the story are contributing to the development of that effect.
Answer: This study examined children’s secret-keeping for a parent and its relationship to trust, theory of mind, secrecy endorsement, and executive functioning (EF). Children (N = 107) between 4 and 12 years of age participated in a procedure wherein parents broke a toy and asked children to promise secrecy. Responses to open-ended and direct questions were examined. Overall, secret-keeping increased with age and promising to keep the secret was related to fewer disclosures in open-ended questioning. Children who kept the secret in direct questioning exhibited greater trust and better parental ratings of EF than children who disclosed the secret. Findings highlight the importance of both social and cognitive factors in secret-keeping development.
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