Read the following passage:

i awoke to the sound of footsteps outside my door. why would someone be awake at this hour? hungry maybe. stomach growling. food. sounds good. maybe some cold pizza. should be some left. who's out there? i should go check. which best describes the effect that the use of sentence fragments has on this passage?

a. it makes the writing more accessible by using simplified language.

b. it adds emphasis by capturing the character's unstructured thoughts.

c. it speeds the pace of the story to create a sense of urgency.

d. it slows the pace of the story to create a mood of suspense.

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. david sedaris's essay "our perfect summer" appeared in the june 16, 2003, issue of the new yorker. match each element of sedaris's essay to an element of a narrative essay. tiles time setting plot geographical setting conflict characters pairs the writer and his mother had always talked about the family buying a second home like the rich people they knew. the writer grew up in raleigh, north carolina, and his emerald isle in the summers.

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts

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