Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but I just took a test with this question yesterday and the answer was "<span>she met famous poet Langston Hughes at the age of 16"
Hope this helped! :) </span>
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I'd imagine the correct answer is<em> the third one</em>, "The story illustrates that growing up can be a painful experience".
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Well, numbers 2 and 4 just explain the story's setting, they don't really demonstrate the story's main theme or lesson. Number 1 is, like, super vague as well. Like, it could be describing a million different stories. Number 3, however, <u>displays the story's main theme</u> and has a statement that <u>can be backed up with evidence</u> from that story. So, the sentence that best shows a strong thesis statement is the third statement.
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This line is considered a synedoche in poetry which is a figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole. This line is from "Casey at the Bat" and in this saying it means he has 5,000 fans watching him and cheering, which is 10,000 eyeballs. The 'tongues' are referring to the fans.
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