Read the following excerpt from as i lay dying: the animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on the bevel. you can see by an old grave that the earth sinks down on the bevel. while in a natural hole it sinks by the center, the stress being up-and-down. so i made it on the bevel. it makes a neater job. which best explains how the structure of this excerpt reveals cash's personality? a. it lacks dialogue to illustrate that cash prefers solitude to society. b. it avoids paragraphs to show that cash has rejected tradition. c. it numbers cash's ideas to show that he is logical and organized. d. it orders ideas sequentially to illustrate cash's idea of a perfect coffin.

Which of the following is not true about using your local library as a resource while doing research? a. searching library catalogs can you narrow your topic, as well as give you ideas about what resources are available to you. b. most libraries now have searchable databases and many other resources accessible online. c. using the library as a resource is a bit more time consuming, because it cannot be done from home. d. all of the above statements are true.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Which two characteristics are basic parts of a literary analysis essay about a play