PLZ HURRY IM TIMED Which detail from “Thomas Edison: The Master of Improvement” supports the big-picture idea of the passage?

A. Thomas Edison is well known as a great inventor. However, he was also a fantastic improver.

B. Unlike Davy and Swan, Edison had no formal schooling. He was quite sickly as a child, so his mom taught him at home.

C. That way, all of those long-lasting Edison bulbs would have a ready supply of the electricity they required.

D. Edison himself probably summed it up best when he said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

Satire can best be defined as the literary form or technique in which and are used to criticize one's vices.

Which best explains this excerpt’s purpose in the novel’s plot structure? the excerpt creates conflict between characters as part of the rising action. the excerpt provides background information on a character as part of the exposition. the excerpt returns a character to equilibrium as part of the falling action. the excerpt is the point of greatest tension and acts as the climax.

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.