Which of these best expresses the main idea of a speech arguing that students should carpool to school? a) carpooling can decrease the level of carbon dioxide emissions. b) many students who don't have their licenses ride the bus to school. c) students enjoying talking to and catching up with friends before classes. d) most students are excited to drive to school once they receive their licenses.

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.