Select the correct answer.
In this passage from Mark Twain's "A Simplified Alphabet," which detail provides the reader with clues to the essay's topic?
"It seemed to me to merely propose to substitute one inadequacy for another, a sort of patching and plugging poor old dental relics with
cement and gold and porcelain paste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. That is to say, a new ALPHABET."
OA. dental relics
OB. porcelain paste
OC. a new alphabet
OD. a new set of teeth

Which statement correctly analyzes how the passages work together to create a central idea?

How did magellan's discovery of what is now considered the philippines directly affect the native populations that were living there? a.they disappeared deep into the new land and started another settlement b. they became aggressive after having a new religious view upon them c. they became restless to travel the world on the ships they encountered d.they became angered over losing their lands' raw goods like fruits and spices

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.