PLEASE HELP ASAP POINTS ND BRAINIEST How do supporting details reinforce the central idea in this passage?

According to author Malcolm Gladwell, the trick to being really skilled
at something is not to be born a genius, it is good old-fashioned
practice. Ten thousand hours of it, in fact. With ten thousand hours of
practice, a person can gain the skills needed in any area - music,
sports, or computers to be considered very advanced in that area.
According to Gladwell, although being talented helps, long hours of
hard work and practice are what truly make the difference.

In what way is the narrator most clearly a monster? a. he has no reason to be bitter but he is. b. he doesn't need to hurt animals but he does. c. he ha no reason to be mean but he is. d. he doesn't need to feel ashamed but he does.

Which of the following highlight the literary significance of elie wiesel's speech? select all that apply. it uses rhetorical devices to persuade with pathos. it assigns meaning to the existentialist nature of life. it won the nobel prize for literature. it attempts to put into words the unspeakable horror.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.