Read the two excerpts and make connections between them based on the evidence in the texts. Passage 1: “The ancient Assyrians, four thousand years ago, had an instrument they called a chetarah….The ancient Hebrews had their kinnura, the Chaldeans their quitra, and the Greeks their cithara and citharis—which Greek writers of the day were careful to emphasize were not the same instrument…members of a family of musical instruments called fides—a word that is ancient Greek for ‘strings.’ From the fides family, it is easy to draw lines to the medieval French Vielle, the German fiedel, the English fithele or fiddle, and the vihuela, national instrument of medieval Spain.

Passage 2: “This degree may be earned with a major in (1) performance; (2) general, choral and instrumental music; (3)composition; (4) music theory; (5) jazz studies; or (6) music history and literature. The student who majors in performance may choose piano (performance), piano (pedagogy), organ (performance), organ (church, music),harpsichord, voice or an orchestral instrument, including harp, classical guitar and multiple woodwinds, as the area of choice.”

These passages demonstrate what shared attribute of expository text?

a) There are a variety of ways to organize texts to make the information more clear.

b) There are no similarities between these two texts, since they are on completely different subjects.

c) These texts are connected because they both include details that do not matter and should be left out.

d) There are similarities in the syntax. They use a form of narrative syntax to make the ideas flow more smoothly.