Read this altered passage below from Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" and write two or three sentences discussing how the missing punctuation affects your fluency when reading. And then of course the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio and they they had been on Venus all their lives and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it and the way it really was but Margot remembered.

Which of the following elements is an essential aspect of realist literature? a.the text should be based on fictional characters.ob. the text should have a short plot and minimum number of characters.c.the text should be a depiction of everyday life and the struggles surrounding it.od.the text should have a protagonist who possesses heroic qualities.e.the text should depict the high-quality life of a character.

Proofread the passage and identify the spelling and punctuation errors. no one knows the exect cause of diabetes. most people who get type 2 diabetes are older, but now younger people are being diagnosed with it. like many young people, you are probably thinking, "why should i be concerned about diabetes? " the truth is that both the center for disease control and the american diabetes association are quite alarmed about the increase in type 2 diabetes among young people. information gathered in the 1990s showed a rapid increase in type 2 diabetes in children. during the 2000s, this trend is continue. scientists who study diabetes are finding that 85 percent of the children who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are overweight. but that is just one reason for the increase. children are at risk for type 2 diabetes if they are inactive, have a family history of diabetes, or are from african american, american indian, or asian american families.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.