1. this is the central and most important idea of a reading passage.
2. this is the perspective from which a story is told.
3. this is the reason for creating written work.
4. this is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another.
5. this is reading between the lines. it is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read.
6. this is a method of relating two or more objects in a piece of work.
7. this is to separate a whole into its parts.
8. to find as many relationships as possible within or between texts

answer choices
a. analyze
b. author's purpose
c. cause and effect
d. compare and contrast
e. connect
f. inference
g. main idea
h. point of view

1. - G

2. - H

3. - B

4. - C

5. - A

6. - D

7. - F

8. - E

Explanation:

The central and the most important idea of reading the passage is the main idea of the work.

The perspective from which the story is narrated to us is the point of view through which the author highlights his message.

The reason for which a particular work is created is the author's purpose as a literary work always contains either an autobiographical element or social issue which he/she wishes to depict.

The relationship between two or more events in which the cause brings about the consequential effects either positive or negative.

Reading between the lines is the analysis of a particular work for better understanding and criticism.

The method of relating two or more objects is the comparison and contrast for better analysis.

The separation of a whole into parts is cited as Inference for better clarity of the events that occurred throughout the story.

To find as many relationships as possible within or between texts is the ability to connect the character's actions and the plot.

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.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."