The purpose of informational text is to inform the reader on a certain topic or idea, hence the word "inform" in informational.
I believe the correct answer is <span>hiding an important secret.
</span>Although sinister does mean evil, or intending harm, I believe that Poe didn't use that word his with that meaning. This is the excerpt of when he met the man on the staircase:
<em>"</em><span><em>His countenance, I thought, wore a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity. He accosted me with </em></span><em>trepidation</em><span><em> and passed on."
</em>There is no evil feelings here - the narrator can only see that his host is afraid because of something, and he doesn't yet know why.<em>
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Is your question coming with a multiple choice answers? Or is it like free write?
But here
Typically some elements that are used to convey a theme are the setting, plot, characters involved. You kinda have to question what the story/poem/article etc is about. Is it about [blank] or what is [blank] trying to tell us.
Sorry if this doesn’t make sense lol I tried my best
Answer:
What the author is implying by the allusion to Albert Einstein is:
A. Like Einstein, bees are intelligent and can perform intellectual tasks.
Explanation:
Let's take a look at the very beginning of the passage:
<em>they are easy to breed and are considered the “Einstein” of the insect world. These striped geniuses perform intellectual feats that cannot be taken for granted, even among mammals.</em>
<u>The lines above already tell us what we need to know. The allusion to Einstein was used as a way to say that bees are intelligent creatures. That is how allusions work. An author alludes to something or someone widely known so as to bring something to readers' minds. In this case, everyone who has ever heard of Einstein associates his name with intelligence</u>. After the allusion, the author proceeds to list some of the amazing tasks and abilities bees have. Having that in mind, we can easily choose letter A as the best choice: Like Einstein, bees are intelligent and can perform intellectual tasks.
