Read the excerpts from "escape" and "to live." i look inside me and i don’t see it i don’t see the power the confidence you say i have you say i can do anything that i’m sure of myself and my intentions and i wonder * * * to know myself to be myself trial and error minus lab write-up feeling without a thesis how do both of these excerpts build the theme that finding your personal identity is a challenge? both express that the speakers struggle with the opinions of others. both show that the speakers are distracted by the world around them. both show that the speakers need from those around them. both express that the speakers are unsure of themselves.

The answer is D. Both express that the speakers are unsure of themselves

Explanation:

These to excerpts, although seemingly complety opposite, convey a similar message.

First excerpt, in a more direct manner, shows the struggle, the conflict between how others see the speaker vs. how the speaker does. There is this huge difference between these two points of view expressed through speaker's constant negation of the inner power and confidence others see.

Second excerpt is more symbolic and less direct. It consists of words associated with school and schoolwork, written without any particular order. This is only to show how these things, although important things in certan period of life, can be distractive and preoccupy and overcome people. Overwhelmed by them, people can become less confident and more uncertain about themselves.

D

Explanation:

both the address and the poster use diction to convey their message. diction is defined as a style of writing or speaking based on the types of words chosen in order to send a message. parallelism is when a similar sentence structure is used for several sentences on a text; roosevelt's address doesn't follow that. repetition has to do with repeating a word or sentence in order to emphasize and idea, however neither the poster nor the address use repetion. finally, the address doesn't use images to convey a message.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.