AUTHOR'S PURPOSE Directions: Analyze the purpose in each of the selections.
What is the purpose or reason for writing the selection?
The purpose of the news article, "The Parents of a Rescued Teenage Sailor"pages 20-22 is to

A. Inform and entertain
B. Inform
C. Persuade

Read the passage. “ah, are you digging on my grave my loved one? —planting rue? ” —“no: yesterday he went to wed one of the brightest wealth has bred.” in “ah, are you digging on my grave? ” by thomas hardy, what has happened to the dead woman’s widower? he has moved away. he has remarried. he has come to visit. he has died.

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?

“the bane of the internet” is written in first-person subjective point of view, so the narrator a) tells the story as it is happening b)tells the story as it is happened in the past c)is a minor character who tells the story as it is happening d)none of the above