Select all of the reasons why the underlined sentence in the following paragraph is a good example of a topic sentence. i really can't stand the food in my school's cafeteria. by about the middle of the year, i get so bored with the meals that are offered because we have the same meals over and over. and it's not like they are good meals! would you want to eat chicken made in three different ways every week? i've resorted to bringing my own meals to school, just to keep my sanity. the topic sentence is the first sentence of the paragraph. the topic sentence of the paragraph directly states the main idea. the topic sentence includes many ideas. the topic sentence sticks to one idea. i really cant stand the food in my schools cafeteria is the underlined sentence

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Which sentence you is an example of chronological structure in “the city without us”?

In chapter 5, ekwefi is called "a woman who had suffered a great deal and in chapter 6, when discussing ezinma with chielo, she states, '"i pray she stays." speculate what may have been an event that caused suffering in ekwefi's past.