A thesis statement is to give a brief summary of what exactly your body paragraphs will be about. For example, the author shows pathos, ethos and logos to persuade his audience that all people need to open their eyes and realize how technology is ruining humanity.
Those three point, ethos, pathos, logos will their own paragraphs to explain the claim.
Context clues are the clues that are given by the author to the readers to try and understand meaning of difficult words in context to the text.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Context clues are the hints which are given to the readers of the text by the author to try and understand the meaning of the difficult words keeping in mind the context of the text.
The clue may appear in the same line itself in which the word is. Just because the vocabulary that we gain comes from the reading that we do, we must take advantage of the context clues while we are reading to improve our vocabulary.
I feel that the above mentioned topic sentence is a good topic sentence because it includes the author's opinion and a limited topic that tells the readers what the text is going to be about without outright telling them.
(For the second post, I think you're supposed to finish the topic sentence's paragraph.)
He admired that the rites implied that the deceased will live actively after death.
