<em>The aspects of a story that best help the reader understand the author, I think, are imagery, repetition, and tone. These three help make the thoughts of the author concrete and understandable. Even more so than imagery and repetition, tone is often known and noted to be very important in understanding the author's purposes. </em>
<em>Plot and setting have more to do with characters than with the author's intentions, although they still do.</em>
<em>-Toremi</em>
Answer:
The author’s purpose for writing "Banksy and the Tradition of Destroying Art” is to inform readers how Banksy’s actions are similar to actions of other artists in history. Also, the author wants to inform readers about how, despite efforts to destroy art to show that some art should not have more value than other art, artists have actually increased the value of their art. This is because the destructive actions make collectors and the elite just compete more to acquire the desired pieces of art. Describing examples in art history and explaining the cause-effect relationship between the artists and the market supports the author’s purpose.
Explanation:
Answer:
Third Option:
“I just had my car keys, but now I can’t find them anywhere. Has anyone seen my keys?”
Explanation:
First, the comma separates the now from the keys statement. This allows the sentence to flow more smoothly.
Second, the ”Has anyone seen my keys?” Is a question — in which it needs to be sepearated from a statement; “...but now I can’t find them anywhere.”
1- The correct answer is B.
The narrator could not believe what Miguel had said, so he run off to the park to investigate. When he arrived, he realized Miguel was correct: there were no traces of the carnival there: no holes where the spikes had been, no hay scattered about.
2- The correct answer is D.
The narrator's father was astonished because he believed that Miguel and the reporter were wrong. He could not understand how it could be possible for there to be no carnival in the area when he and everyone in town had been to one the night before.
