14. What is the first step when writing an argumentative paragraph? A. Transition to another piece of evidence that supports your claim.

B. Decide which side of the issue you are writing about and write a claim
statement/topic sentence.

C. Write a concluding sentence.

D. Explain how the textual evidence supports your claim.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet

In achebe’s things fall apart, okonkwo finds his son nwoye’s signs of laziness "disquieting" because it reminds him of his wife his father his other son his younger self

What is the meaning of the word checking as it is used in this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage?