Read the excerpt below and answer the question. how it was that she could make, and feel for making it, so much of joy for them, and all along be covering, like a scar, and while she smiled, that hungering incompleteness and regret— that passionate ache for something of her own, for something of herself—she never knew. she knew that she could seem to make them all believe there was no other part of her than her persistent happiness; but the why and how she did not know. this excerpt from "aunt imogen" expresses select all that apply. confidence deceit emptiness uncertainty next question ask for

This excerpt from "Aunt Imogen" expresses emptiness and deceit.

The character in this excerpt is possesed by a strong feeling of empiness. She feels a void inside herself and aches to fill it with something of her own.

But, at the same time, she maintans a facade. She appears, to everyone she knows, to be utterly happy and complete.

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.

i wish you all a merry christmas!  

and or happy hanukkah

and a happy new year