Read the passage. eating dinner together as a family unit is very important. families that ate dinner together were sixty percent less likely to encounter communication problems than families who did not. in order to elaborate her point, the author of the passage provided a contrast a statistic a quotation an example

Excerpted from "the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! look carefully at the lines above. a poem with this particular rhyme scheme is best read a. line by line. b. with long pauses. c. phrase by phrase. d. with a strong rhythm.