Read the excerpt from A Girl Named Zippy. What is the purpose of this excerpt?
There was one main street, Broad Street, which was
actually not so broad, and was the site of the town's only
four-way stop sign. There were three churches: the
North Christian Church and the South Christian Church,
which sat on opposite ends of Broad Street like
sentinels, and the Mooreland Friends Church, which was
kind of in the middle of town, but tucked back on
Jefferson Street at the edge of a meadow. There were ..
. no theaters, no department stores.
O to show how many churches were in town
O to detail where the stop sign was located
O to show the activities the characters enjoyed
O to provide details about the story's setting

To provide details about the story's setting.

Explanation:

'A Girl Named Zippy' is a memoir of Haven Kimmel. This account of the author describes about her childhood spent in Mooreland in Indiana.

In the given excerpt, Kimmel is describing the setting of her story. The setting of the place where she lived and spent her childhood.

The setting describes the serenity of the small town of Indiana, Mooreland and also to suggest how small her town was.

So, the correct answer is that the author is describing the plot of the story in the given excerpt. Thus option D (last option) is correct.

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

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.”