Read the paragraph. . Writing science fiction lets an author think about what society might be like in the future. Will cars fly? Maybe robots will teach school? Writing a fantasy story lets an author be imaginative as well. The fantasy author can invent talking animals that live in magical worlds.

Which is best as a topic sentence at the beginning of the paragraph?

A science fiction writer might invent new technologies that do not yet exist.
On the other hand, fantasy writers make up things that never exist in reality.
Science fiction and fantasy are genres that allow authors to be imaginative.
Both genres give authors the opportunity to create new worlds with words.

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses