Read the excerpt from "daughter of invention".

the house fell silent a moment, before yoyo heard, far off, the gun blasts and explosions, the serious, self-important voices of newscasters reporting their tv war.

what type of conflict is presented in this excerpt?
a conflict with other characters.
a conflict within one character.
a conflict with nature.
a conflict within society.

i am confusion this question is confusion

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.

what do you mean