The prepositional phrase is "on a high shelf" since ON is a preposition.
Entertaining
At your aunt's retirement party, you would want to give a fun, entertaining speech incorportating a story about your aunt.
At a retirement party, you don't need to persuade anyone to do anything, since you knew about the retirement party, you would have planned a speech (so it would not be extemporanous and done spontasiously) and there's no need to inform anyone of anything at a retirement party.
Which question? It’s not specific and I don’t see the reading
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When Emily's father passed away, she wouldn't admit he was dead. It took three days for her to allow people to remove his body from their home. ... Thus, the death of her father and the revelation of her poverty marked the point at which the townspeople began to feel sorry for Miss Emily.
Answer:
the topic is what you are talking about and theme is the auctal story is about.