4 Why is a good idea to analyze the title and first paragraph of article before reading the entire piece? they tell you how long the article is likely to be.

they compare the article to articles written by others.

they contain clues about the articles purpose and topics.

they tell you all you need to know to summarize the article.

they contain clues about the article's purpose and topics.

Explanation:

you can't tell how long the article would be from the first paragraph

you can't compare the article to others if you only read the first paragraph

you can't summarize the article based on the first paragraph

where is the writing? (so i can answer)

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.