What is the subject matter? What is the author’s audience?
What is the authors purpose?

For Southern belles who scour shops
for ballgowns not mirrored
in bridge and garden club circles,
the holidays are a blur of invitations
The women flock to Montgomery Fair
for alterations--tucks here, gussets there,
and deep hems. Not even mannequins
are a perfect size 8. In the whites-only
fitting room, Rosa "Yes, Ma'ams"
each glowed lady, then returns to the Singer,
dizzy from the social whirl she tastes
vicariously through customers bidding her
to drape flawed figures with chiffon
Yards of silk, satin, velvet slide between
needle and treadle Beads and sequins,
like missed chances, slip through her fingers.
Thirty days till New Year's Eve
then five months before cotillion
For a few weeks, empty racks and room
to breathe: no giggling debutantes,
no gossipy matrons with coffee-stained teeth,
cigarette breath and syrupy drawls.
Tired of Miss Ann, Rosa anticipates
quitting time, the glow of Christmas lights
and the long ride home. She removes
her thimble, knowing that a hoop skirt
can pass through the eye of a needle
easier than a colored seamstress
can hold a seat on a city bus

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question 1

one of the main differences between central idea and theme is

a) theme is found when you have one main character, central idea is limited to stories with multiple characters.

b) themes are explicitly stated and central ideas are not.

c) central ideas can only be found in narrative writing, while themes can be found in multiple types of literature.

d) central idea can be found in both fiction and nonfiction texts.

question 4

when reading "nameless, tennessee", we know that we are looking for a central idea and not a theme because

a) its a short story. short stories only have a central idea.

b) its a non-fiction text. non-fiction does not have a theme, only central idea.

c) themes are directly stated and there isn't one directly stated in "nameless, tennessee".

d) all of the above.

question 6

read the excerpt.

"we had a doctor on the ridge in them days. as good as any doctor alivin'. he'd cut a crooked toenail or deliver a woman. dead these last years."

how do the details in this excerpt to develop the central idea?

a) they give insight into the doctor's motivation for people.

b) they depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town.

c) they explain why people wanted to get away from the town.

d) they reveal some of the meaningful human history of the unnamed town.