Which of the following is not a question to ask when considering the purpose of a piece of writing?

1. who is my audience?
2. what do i want to say?
3. who are the main characters?
4. what am i interested in?

If this were a fictionalized account, instead of a memoir, which might be the opening sentence? a) i am not your prisoner. b) i find myself in prison. c) you have taken me prisoner. d) black hawk had been taken prisoner.

Which of the following sentences requires a colon to be correct? a. in his vacation suitcase, jonathan packed two pairs of pants, four shirts, his swimsuit, and his favorite pajamas. b. when she decided to write a letter, she grabbed her pen, paper, stamps, and address book. c. the new dessert recipe called for equal parts of sugar, cream, peanut butter, and crushed pecans. d. she gathered all of her ingredients to make a smoothie strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and yogurt.

Asymbol always — a. gives human qualities to nonhuman things b. uses a connective word such as like or as c. stands both for itself and for something else d. presents an apparent contradiction that is actually true