Read the following passage:

i awoke to the sound of footsteps outside my door. why would someone be awake at this hour? hungry maybe. stomach growling. food. sounds good. maybe some cold pizza. should be some left. who's out there? i should go check. which best describes the effect that the use of sentence fragments has on this passage?

a. it makes the writing more accessible by using simplified language.

b. it adds emphasis by capturing the character's unstructured thoughts.

c. it speeds the pace of the story to create a sense of urgency.

d. it slows the pace of the story to create a mood of suspense.

Which excerpt from "hills like white elephants" provides the most details about the main characters' lives outside the railway station? click here to read an excerpt.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.

Choose the word that best describes the relationship between mini and her father at the beginning of the story. a. distant b. silly c. loving d. uncommunicative