Which of the following is an important element of a story’s rising action? a. rhetoric b. exposition c. climax d. tension

C. Climax.

Explanation:

A story´s rising action is developed throughout a piece of narrative and, when it reaches its highest point of tension and drama, it is called climax. Climax is a literary element which can be summed up as the time in the story when the beginning of the solution to the plot starts so as to let it be developed until its resolution.

- free verse.

- " in poetry, one of the best ways to practice technique is to write in. i want all to be unstressed so that “all the clocks” and “in the night” are matching anapests. many forms that sharpen skills are useful in free verse."

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”