Read paragraph 7 of shooting an elephant. in 3 paragraphs, explain how the author uses rhetoric to deliver the changing consciousness of the speaker using imagery, tone, parallel structures, organization and figurative language (choose 3).

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

being untruthful

eating too much

overstaying one's welcom

this is that correct answer.

mark twain, real name samuel langhorne clemens, was an american writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. among his novels are the adventures of tom sawyer and its sequel, the adventures of huckleberry finn, the latter often called "the great american novel". wikipedia