Which sentence from the passage demonstrates author bias? A.
It is obvious that Van Gogh felt very peaceful while he painted this piece of art.
B.
The painting became more popular in 1941, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought it from a painting collector.
C.
As the title suggests, it is a landscape of the night sky with a yellow moon and circular-shaped stars over a small village.
D.
The surface of the painting is not smooth as with most paintings or photographs.

A Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh's A Starry Night is the most popular painting in the world. Van Gogh used oil paints over canvas to create this landscape painting in 1889. Van Gogh produced over 2,000 paintings, drawings, and sketches during his lifetime. Van Gogh's works are great, but this painting is his best.
As the title suggests, it is a landscape of the night sky with a yellow moon and circular-shaped stars over a small village. Van Gogh used a combination of bright colors to recreate the scene of a night sky. It is said that Van Gogh used both imagination and memory to create this scene. It is obvious that Van Gogh felt very peaceful while he painted this piece of art. When people look at the painting, they feel as if they are standing under a starlit sky, enjoying the view.
The surface of the painting is not smooth as with most paintings or photographs. Van Gogh used a series of brush strokes to achieve this texture. This texture adds more value and beauty to the painting. The painting became more popular in 1941, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought it from a painting collector.

Read the following excerpts that illustrate darl's and cash's points of view from william faulkner's as i lay dying : from darl: read the following excerpts that illustrate darl's and cash's points of view from william faulkner's  as i lay dying: from darl: tull's wagon stands beside the spring, hitched to the rail, the reins wrapped about the seat stanchion. in the wagon bed are two chairs. jewel stops at the spring and takes the gourd from the willow branch and drinks. i pass him and mount the path, beginning to hear cash's saw.when i reach the top he has quit sawing. standing in a litter of chips, he is fitting two of the boards together. between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold, like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze blade: a good carpenter, cash is. he holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a quarter of the finished box. he kneels and squints along the edge of them, then he lowers them and takes up the adze. a good carpenter. addie bundren could not want a better one, better box to lie in. it will give her confidence and comfort. i go on to the house, followed by the          chuck.          chuck.          chuck.of the adze.from cash: i made it on the bevel.there is more surface for the nails to grip.there is twice the gripping-surface to each seam.the water will have to seep into it on a slant. water moves easiest up and down or straight across.in a house people are upright two thirds of the time. so the seams and joints are made up-and-down. because the stress is up-and-down.in a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.except.a body is not square like a crosstie.animal magnetism.the animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on a bevel.compare how the two narrators tell the story of addie bundren's impending death. is either narrator reliable? explain what the reader learns about each narrator. be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Read the excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. which choice best describes the purpose of this text? to persuade readers to oppose the censorship of literature to inform readers about censorship in a specific country to entertain readers with stories about censorship to motivate readers to speak out against censorship mark this and return

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