Which sentence has no errors in the use of quotation marks or italics? a. ernest hemingway, an american novelist who lived in paris among other places, wrote a farewell to arms. b. the writer gertrude stein was a friend of the artist pablo picasso, who painted "guernica." c. sylvia shaw created the sculpture "bird girl," which appeared on the cover of a famous novel by john berendt. d. mark twain, a great american novelist and master storyteller, wrote an essay titled "how to tell a story."

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

What does a change in medium allow the audience to do?

What is the most important point that the authors make in this paragraph? most enslaved people worked under fair to good conditions. enslaved workers had decent lives if they had fair overseers. plantations often were harsh because of the cruelty of those in charge. men with absolute power can lose the sense of what it means to be good.