14. Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the prewriting strategy of brainstorming? A. Maurice looks up what other writers have had to say on the topic of winter holiday celebrations around the world.

B. Puja writes her topic - self-driving cars - in a bubble in the center of a page and surrounds that bubble with related
words.

C. Kanice writes a paragraph of her thoughts on the topic of fashion trends.

D. Jose makes a list of everything he can think of on the topic of planting trees.

Choose the letter of the word that most clearly expresses the tone in each passage. if you are unfamiliar with any of the words, look them up before you select the correct answer. we have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday, deep below the earth. they lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving behind grieving wives and bewildered children. we bid them a final farewell. question 1 options: forgiving sorrowful angry amused

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.

Which statement best paraphrases these sentences from the text