1. To determine how an author conveys his or her message, what question should you ask yourself? What is literally happening in this passage?
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What does the author want me to understand, think, or feel about the characters?
What does the author want me to understand, think, or feel about the characters and/or the events?
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What words, phrases, or sentences can I cite to back up my assertions?

What happens once in a minute twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?

What can you predict about the rest of the story? a) it will be about an eighteen-year-old girl. b) it will be about the aubignys falling in love. c) it will be about armand aubigny's father taking him to paris. d) it will be about the relationship between arman aubigny and the girl. e) it will be about an economic revolution led by aubigny.

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)