MacaBeth has three reasons not to kill the king. First, killing Duncan may come back to harm MacaBeth in the end. Second, the king is currently in MacaBeth's care and MacaBeth is his host. Third, Duncan is a noble man and many would miss him. MacaBeth's only reason for wanting to kill Duncan is his ambition to become the king himself. He decides not to do it. However, he is eventually convinced by Lady MacaBeth to go forward with killing Duncan when she questions his manhood.
Answer:
A. Condense the author's idea into a shortened version but in your own words
Explanation:
D. Take an author's idea word for word from the text is plagiarism, unless you are are quoting. C. Rewriting the author's idea in your own words in a version that is about the same length is paraphrasing. A. is the definition of summarize. When someone asks you to "sum up" a story, they are asking you to give you a shorter version of the story with only the most important parts. Paraphrasing and summarizing sound pretty similar, but the key difference is in length. A paraphrase should be about the same length as the original idea, summarizing should be shorter. B. is also wrong, since you are <em>expanding </em>upon the author's thoughts, when summarizing tries to condense them.
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Can't wait to see you!
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