The excerpts that function and can be characterized more accurately as expository texts are the first three excerpts: Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2 and Excerpt 3. These excerpts are centered around the communication of knowledge, of information which the reader may not have. They are exposing these 'new' information with short and regular sentences that strive to be as clear as possible. It can be discussed if the Excerpt 5, taken from Charles Dickens' <em>Great Expectations</em>, is an expository text, seeing as it has a very nuanced description; but it would be more precise to consider that excerpt as a descriptive text, as a type of text related to narrative fiction.
The correct answer is B. box, because after the word "box" she is describing what she found in it. They are two different things, so you need a comma after box.
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The main idea presented in the poem "Complaint of El Rio Grande" is the socio-political issue of immigration and the building of a border between Mexico and the US, separated by the river Rio Grande.
Explanation:
"Complaint of El Rio Grande" is a poem written by Richard Blanco. The poem is personified by the river El Rio Grande, complaining about the political issue of building a border between Mexico and the US. The river recognizing its role in nature complaints that it was meant to serve all and not selected few, not to divide, not to murder, or drown anyone. The poem also reveals the connotative meaning that how the river also serves as a border between the two nations.
