Part 1: Overview Your assignment is to write a 15- to 20-word summary of the passage "Chants, curse can't stop Red Sox" by Steve
Wilstein. Locate the main idea first, and then write a first draft of your summary using between 40 and 50 words. Finally, shorten your summary so that it is between 15 and 20 words, and check your word count. Highlight or bold the sentence(s) in the original article that states the main idea.
The main idea of “Chants, curse can't stop Red Sox” is how Red Sox overcomes the odds to defeat the New York Yankees.
Explanation:
Red Sox had once labeled Yankees as the empire of the evil. And after its win over the Yankees, it claimed "all empires fall so must the Yankees".
The passage shows how a wildcard Red Sox turned history on its head by defeating the New York Yankees. Playing at a much smaller remuneration, Red Sox proved its mantle and registered one of the most stunning victories against the highly-rated Yankees.
No chants or curses could stop the Red Sox from making history.
I would just explain to them how poetry is a way of writing in order to capture physical and emotional details unable to be written in factual writing. Hope this helps :-)
The answer would be D. "I made just one request for the camping trip: I wanted to stay in a cabin instead of a tent."
Generally colons are used after phrases that are complete sentences. "I made just one request for the camping trip" is a complete sentence, and should therefore have a colon after it.
I would say that the major aspect of narrative nonfiction that I can trace in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's "My Brother Paul" is A) reflection. The narrator is reflecting on his past, and thinking about who the person who truly and completely understood him was.
