`nohbdy, nohbdy's tricked me, nohbdy's ruined me! '
to this rough shout they made a sage reply:
'ah well, if nobody has played you foul
there in your lonely bed, we are no use in pain
given by great zeus. let it be your father,
poseidon lord, to whom you pray.'

so saying
they trailed away. and i was filled with laughter
to see how like a charm the name deceived them.
in the excerpt, the word “charm” is being compared with : (nobody, pain, laughter, name) which one is correct?

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.

not exaxtly

explanation: it depends on the situation like if u do something good there will be good consequences which arent punishments but if you do somthing bad there will be bad consequences which are punishements.

can you finish the question hun