An informative essay is exemplified as the scholastic written document/essay that is chiefly inclined towards informing or notifying the audience about a particular subject, process, or event. It aims to elaborate on a specific topic or idea with adequate details that demand the students to note down the key points and recapitulate in a brief form(summary) as it offers a quite comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the domain/subject matter which is being explained.
As per the question, the choice that would be most constructive to focus your attention would be 'taking notes and summarizing' as it would help memorize the key points of the information presented and jot down brief outlook of the entire speech that would help form an opinion or judgment at the end of the class. Thus, <u>option B</u> is the correct answer.
It means that even it everyone is doing something wrong, it is not right. It is referring to peer pressure, don't do something just because everyone else it doing it.
"All of a sudden..." is a transition that shows suspense. It says something happened, but it didn't happen with any warning and it doesn't tell the reader up front what went on or if it was good or bad.
These phrases used by Thomas Paine in his pamphlet Common Sense with the words "Tis not" in each of them show a example of a figure of speech called Repetition. <em>This is a literay or rethotical devise used by writers who want to put emphasis of some words or phrases in the text, or to make an idea clearer by repeating them.</em>