What organizational pattern would probably be most effective for arranging the main points of a speech with the central idea "estate taxes should be retained because they preserve opportunity for all, because they reduce the u. s. budget deficit, and because they are consistent with american values of fairness and justice"?
-causal
-formal
-problem-solution
-topical
-economic

The correct answer is topical.

Explanation:

A pattern is a type of theme of recurring events or objects, such as grecas, sometimes referred to as ornaments of a set of objects.

More abstractly, "pattern" could be defined as that series of constant, identifiable variables within a larger set of data.

These elements are repeated in a predictable manner. It can be a template or model that can be used to generate objects or parts of them, especially if the objects that are created have enough in common to infer the structure of the fundamental pattern, in which case, it is said that the objects exhibit a single pattern

there was no passage listed but using the process of elimination i'd say it was d. the high economy would do the opposite. i don't see how low prices would affect it. high unemployment is possible but i feel d is the better answer.

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