Which phrase from the passage most helps the reader to
identify author Maya Angelou's viewpoint about Mrs.
Flowers?
Read the passage from "I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings.
For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store,
the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and
inedible. Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who
threw me my first life line.
I sopped around the house
an old biscuit
dirty and inedible
threw me my first life line

D threw me my first life line

Explanation:add me xbox cuzzen lol

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

the illustration   that would give a reader a clear understanding of the text is a picture of men constructing the frame of a building.the frame is made of iron bars. the text describes the job of blacksmiths'. these were very organised and they had different names: "the driver" and "the heater". the text describes the way in which these men worked ; they worked iron pieces as if they were playing a sport. in fact, the text wants to show the men's skills. the text also puts some emphasis on the use of '' rivets'' in construction. this kind of nails were not always used in the construction of manhattan.

some examples:

"and with an underhand toss he hurled the smoking rivet straight at the catcher, who caught it in mid-air in his catching can." men's skills

"when the driver was ready for a new " the emphasis on the rivet ( special nail used in construction).

" it against a beam to remove any cinders, and jammed it into the waiting hole. " the emphasis on the rivet.