Question

Which sentence from this excerpt reflects a compare-and-contrast text structure? Pietro and Rosa Sicurella lived with their nine children in Adrano, Sicily prior to coming to the United States. When Giuseppe died in 1916, the Sicurella siblings living in New York decided not to return to Sicily--the rest of the family joined them after World War I. The Sicurella family typified the kinds of professions many Italian immigrants undertook once they came to America in the early 1900s. Giuseppe D'Amico, Concetta Sicurella's husband, immigrated with his wife's family, leaving his own family behind in Sicily.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

B

Answer 2

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When Giuseppe died in 1916, the Sicurella siblings living in New York decided not to return to Sicily--the rest of the family joined them after World War I.  

Explanation:

A compare-and-contrast text structure is one that literally compares two different situations in the same text, showing two situations that when involved in the same context show strands the same or different from each other.

An example of this type of structure can be seen in the option "When Giuseppe died in 1916, the Sicurella siblings living in New York decided not to return to Sicily - the rest of the family joined them after World War I," where it compares the decision Sicurella's family about where to go after Giuseppe died. This option shows that one part of the family decided not to return to Sicily, while the other part decided to join them only when the war was over.