<span>Beowulf’s first major battle was against Grendel, a monster that had been terrorizing the Scyldings. Beowulf heard about Grendel’s murderous spree in the land of the Danes under King Hrothgar and decided to come to their aid. Beowulf fights Grendel in a mead hall at Herot and tears off the monster’s arm, mortally wounding it. Grendel’s mother attacks the Danes in revenge but Beowulf follows the monster back to her lair and kills it. Beowulf goes back home to the Geats and becomes their King. Fifty years after his last battle with Grendel’s mother, Beowulf is forced to fight a dragon after a slave steals a golden cup from its lair. This last battle is however difficult for Beowulf who receives help from one of his men and the two finally defeat the dragon. During the battle with the dragon Beowulf was mortally wounded. The hero dies soon after and is buried ceremoniously at sea</span>
Answer:
A consonant cluster (sometimes known as a consonant blend) is a group of consonants that appear together in a word without any vowels between them.
Explanation:
Both passages use chronological order and passage 1 mainly presents facts, while passage 2 uses more description are the two statements that best describe the text structures of both passages.
You can see how both texts have a chronological order because both have dates or mention times in the people's lives which are mentioned following the order in which they occurred. In the first text, for example, there are many time references like "when he was four years old...", "at the age of seven..." and "at the age of 15..." which follow a chronological order. In the second passage, phrases like "November 6, 1854", "at the age of 13'...', "by 1880..." exemplify how chronollogical order is followed.
In the first passage there are many more facts mentioned. For example, the time Duke Ellington was born, when he started listening to music, when he started playing the piano, when he started working at a soda fountain, his salary after his first gig, when he formed a band, etc. In the second passage, on the other hand, more descriptions are used. For example, it describes Sousa as a "determined, industrious and optimistic" boy. It then describes how famous he was by 1880 and then mentions several personality traits to describe him as talented, tolerant and approachable.
The theme concerns an emotionally uplifting topic.
