D- because the narrator is first telling us that it is night time and that he hears someone in his house and he trying to figure out what our who it could be.
An author's purpose in using rhetoric is to 'create a certain effect for the reader'. that is, to persuade them, to make them feel some emotions, etc.
Answer: Earning a spot on the football team (which has won the championship the last two years) is quite an accomplishment.
Explanation: This is the only sentence that shows proper punctuation, by using parentheses to enclose a relative clause that adds information. In the first sentence, there is no reason to put the indirect object between parentheses. The third sentence lacks commas or parentheses around <em>a safe driver</em>. The fourth sentence should have both commas deleted and parentheses added around <em>in time for the start of the new fall semester.</em>
Answer:
"often considered witty"
Explanation:
A subject complement is a word that describes the subject of a sentence that follows immediately after a linking verb. Like the name suggests, it complements the subject. It can either be a noun, adjective or pronoun.
Therefore, the subject complement from the sentence "Bret Hartes' poems and prose were often considered witty" is "often considered witty".