An introduction that provides context. A focus statement that states the big idea, a theme of Love That Dog. A supporting point that describes a change in Jack that relates to the theme. Evidence from the text that shows the change in Jack. Elaboration on how the evidence connects to the theme. A concluding statement that connects back to the big idea, the theme of Love That Dog and how Jack changes. A pair of adjectives, ordered correctly. Correct capitalization and punctuation. (Be sure to punctuate quotations correctly!)

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader

d. it compares the speaker reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.