One theme from "the yellow wallpaper" is that a person who is not allowed to be creative can become distressed. which sentence from the story best supports this theme?
a. but there is something else about that paper the smell! i noticed it the moment we came into the room, but with so much air and sun it was not that bad.
b. i think sometimes that if i were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.
c. i have watched john when he did not know i was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and i've caught him several times looking at the paper!
d. john is a physician, and perhaps (i would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) perhaps that is one reason i do not get well faster.

B. I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.

Explanation: "The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1892. From the given options, the sentence that best support the theme found in this story that a person who is not allowed to be creative can become distressed, is the corresponding to option B, because the speaker is saying that if he could be able to write, he would feel release.

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

the answer is a.

explanation:

the clause "looking toward the south" modifies "a funnel cloud." it's not really the cloud that's "looking," but grammatically, that clause is modifying the cloud.