American literature began to emerge around the nineteenth century. Authors wrote what their culture was like through folk tales, narratives, and plays. Which of the following statements best summarizes a role of literature in society?
A. Literature is not used to express cultural themes.
B. Literature can express creative ideas rather than history.
C. Literature can express themes such as religion, justice, and the passage of time.
D. Literature does not reflect themes such as religion, justice, and the passage of time.

C. Literature can express themes such as religion, justice, and the passage of time.

Explanation:

Theme can be defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.

Literature's role in the society can be used express several themes such as religion, politics, justice, war, passage of time,love, friendship, peace, hopelessness, fear, etc.

In almost all cultural societies, ne it the Islamic, indic, the sino-japnese, or the Judeo Christian, the literary tradition I many different firms develops intertwined relationships to religious thoughts.

Literature can be used to explain a theme of fundamental mystery of human existence - of humankind's place in the world and our relationship to the created universe, to the divine. Religion is a key theme in literature that several authors has used in their literary works.

Literature can also express the theme of Justice in a society, literature expressing the theme of Justice usually manifests the moral principle that virtue deserves reward, and vices earn punishment and also literature can preserve and talk about the passage of time, it can talk about a group of people's culture over time, and note the changes in the culture and present their history in literary forms

part a. there were 250 teenagers surveyed (100% of tenagers = 250)therefore 1 % = 250/100 = 2.5 76% = 1% x 76 = 2.5 x 76 = 190 teenagers of the 250 surveyed liked burgerspart b: jane surveyed 25% (which is equal to 50 teenagers, i.e. a quarter of the teenagers surveyed is 50) to get 100% we simply get 4 quarters, i.e. multiply 50 by 4 = 200 teenagers were surveyed by jane. part c: it is impossible to give an example where a percentage is greater than 100%, since, by definition , percentage means "per 100".

wait history, who want to talk about history, boring.