Read the following paragraphs: When our air conditioner broke in the middle of a hot summer, we had to fall back on some old-fashioned tricks to keep cool. At night, we opened all the doors and windows and set up fans to pull the colder night air into the house. When the sun came up, we pulled down the window shades to block the heat. As it got warm in the house, we put a tub of ice water in front of each fan to blow a chilled breeze through the darkened rooms. The key idea in this essay is staying comfortable without air conditioning. Which words or phrases below are used as pattern transitions to connect the paragraphs to that idea? a. house
b. window
c. air
d. cool, colder, chilled​

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir