Select the correct text in the passage. Identify the topic sentence in the given paragraph. (A) All members of the animal kingdom need sleep to help their brains function properly. (B) The brain needs a minimum number of hours to rest and organize itself. (C) The number of hours depends on age. (D) For example, human babies need an average of 14 to 16 hours of rest daily, while adults can function on about 6 to 8 hours. (E) Scientists are not completely sure what the brain does during sleep periods, but they do know that the brain sorts and stores information and replaces chemicals when a person sleeps.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

25 ! which three lines in this excerpt from phillis wheatley's poem "goliath of gath" contain examples of figurative language? the hosts on two opposing mountains stood, thick as the foliage of the waving wood; between them an extensive valley lay, o'er which the gleaming armour pour'd the day, when from the camp of the philistine foes, dreadful to view, a mighty warrior rose; in the dire deeds of bleeding battle skill'd,

Define the following word using the meaning of the suffix. use your dictionary if you are uncertain of the definition. argument a. full of disagreement b. act of disagreement c. state of disagreement d. quality of disagreement