Select the correct answer.
Arnold is writing a persuasive essay arguing that professional athletes are bad role models for children and teens. Which piece of evidence would be best for his essay?
A.
a personal blog that argues that athletes get paid too much money
B.
statistics on the number of professional athletes arrested for crimes last year
C.
a statement by professional basketball player Kobe Bryant about a recent game
D.
the writer’s personal opinion about sports or athletes
E.
a personal anecdote about an athlete the writer looks up to and admires

How can you tell that the text is from a biography

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret

In which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject