Read the following paragraph, which is missing a topic sentence: Studies show that buckling up reduces the odds of dying in a vehicle accident by about 50%. The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration says that almost 300,000 lives have been saved by seat belts since 1975. If that isn't reason enough to
"click it," driving without a fastened seat belt can get you pulled over in most states and ticketed in all of them.
Which is the most effective topic sentence for the paragraph?
O Modern cars are safer than ever but driving is still dangerous.
O Seat belts are important for many reasons.
O Car crashes are the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of fifty-five.
O Many people think that they shouldn't have to wear a seat belt if they don't want to.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification