PART A: Which TWO statements best identify the central ideas of the text? A.

There were great advances made in artillery development during the war that could have prevented an attack like the one at Pearl Harbor.

B.

J. C. Alton's participation in WWII cost him his hearing and his peace of mind.

C.

The number of causalities from the attack on Pearl Harbor is unknown since the Japanese attack was unexpected.

D.

Most of J. C. Alton's team was unafraid in the face of the attack on Pearl Harbor since they had received such detailed training.

E.

It was impossible for soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor to be truly prepared for what they would see on the day of the attack.

F.

After time, J. C. Alton found that the physical effects and memories of WWII impacted him less.

Reliving the attack on pearl harbor

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

a. the man as a ruler

sorry, i just really need points. and to this question, maybe i know the answer. but i have no time now. d