Which sentence is true about the main idea of a text? a. the main idea will be expressed in the final sentence of expository paragraphs. b. main ideas are ideas that do not need support from details. c. a text may have several main ideas. d. identifying and evaluating the main idea you understand what you read.

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened. joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations. b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v. represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty. c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Life is a barren field frozen with snow. what literary device is he using? a. metaphor b. simile c. personification d. none of the above

Select all of the correct answers. what arguments does susan b. anthony make in this excerpt from her speech?