Which is a key difference between the main ideas of the text ?

Poe's essay is dominated by facts, while King's memoir is dominated by images and examples.

- self-esteem and a clear goal for writing

- financial security

- a room to be alone

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.