Read the excerpt and answer the question.

when i think of the hometown of my youth, all that i seem to remember is dust – the brown, crumbly dust of late summer – arid, sterile, dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.

which story element does the excerpt above best develop?
a. setting
b. climax
c. conflict
d. characters

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader

Experiments were conducted to try to teach chimpanzees sign language