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The worst author introduction I ever saw is making me cringe, right now, as I remember it. The co-owner of the bookstore started by reading through the store’s upcoming events flier, pausing to on each event. This took a full 10 minutes. Then she spent 5 minutes talking about the plight of independent bookstores, and how they need money to do things like community book nights, and hey she’s got this newsletter sign-up sheet that she’s going to pass around. And while we’re at it, the store actually has two different email newsletters that they send out, and she described them both in great detail. Another sign-up sheet is passed around.

Having already wasted close to 20 minutes of our time, she launched into a synopsis of the book, interspersed with her own impressions, leaving no secondary character or minor scene unnamed. Worst of all, the book has a rather large twist in the second half, and she was explicitly hinting at what it is. Someone in the audience actually yelled out, “Don’t give it away!” This was advice she did not take.

This is an extreme example, by far the worst I’ve ever seen, but author introduction crimes are rampant. I was recently at a literary festival where at least 10 of the roughly 15 author introductions I saw were painful to sit through. I take this issue seriously because I was an author events coordinator at Brookline Books Mith for two years, and we took pride in our author introductions. The willingness and ability to carefully craft a good author introduction, in fact, was part of my job interview.

Author introductions, in my opinion, are about courtesy. Should a beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning author have to hear the president of Northwestern’s Jewish students’ society call him Michael Sha-BONE eight times in two minutes? No. Because he flew across the country to speak for 50 minutes in your overheated auditorium and you have the internet. A good author introduction shows the author that you’re excited to be a partner in promoting their work and that you value the role their career plays on the literary stage, all while being informative and – lord have mercy – brief.

How To Introduce an Author

Step 1. Find Out Who the Author Is

Get your details straight. Look up the pronunciation of their name, even if you think you know it. If a definitive answer is elusive, ask their publicist, agent, or whoever set up the event with you. Otherwise, ask the author when they arrive, before you hit the microphone with some garbled version of .

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out what books they’ve written. Don’t say that Stay Awake is Dan Chaon’s fifth novel. He’s written two novels, but this is his third story collection. Do you think A History of Love is Nicole Krauss’s first book? Wrong! Look it up. If you find yourself introducing someone like Michael , who’s written novels, short stories, essays, comic books, and children’s books, just avoid taxonomy and say he’s prolific.

Find out what awards they’ve won, where they teach (currently), and what periodicals they write for. More on this later.

you haven’t had time to do your research, don’t guess, and definitely don’t — as I saw someone do last weekend — turn to Kevin Brock Meier in the middle of your introduction and say “Is The View From the Seventh Layer a novel?” I shudder.

Step 2. Weed Out Unnecessary/Unimpressive Details

So you’ve printed out the author’s Wikipedia entry. Don’t include the fact that they teach creative writing part-time at Eastern Nevada State. Don’t mention that they won the Central North Carolina Writer’s Prize. Don’t say that they were included on Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Authors to Watch list.

These details do two things — they make the author look small-time, and they give the impression that you’re desperate for any scrap of information to fill out your introduction.

Which Brings Us to Step 3. Include Personal Impressions

Personal impressions of the author’s work should be the bulk of your introduction. Ideally, they will be your personal impressions. During my first year as an events coordinator, I read each author’s book before I hosted their event, a unnecessary gesture with enormous dividends.

Firstly, it is yet another step you can take to avoid looking like an idiot. The room is full of people who’ve most likely come to hear the author because they’ve read their work. It’s embarrassing when the person at the microphone is the

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B. Sages still have more authority in the modern world than rulers of nations do

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The rest are still used in our culture

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Jake is the man of the match

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add a comma after gothic :)

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A stranger asked Astha what kind of music she liked.

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B. the identity of Jack's mother

E. the relationship between Miss Prism and Lady Bracknell

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Simile - a kind of description. A simile compares two things so that the thing described is understood more vividly, eg 'The water was as smooth as glass. A simile can create a vivid image in the reader's mind, helping to engage and absorb them.Generally, a writer uses similes to enable the reader to imagine in his mind what the writer is saying. This is why a writer compares one thing to another with which the reader is familiar. The speaker compares his love to a red rose that has just bloomed.Writers often use similes to introduce concrete images (like boxes of chocolates) into writing about abstract concepts (like life). Readers are more explicitly aware of the direct comparison that's being made with a simile compared to a metaphor, which is often more poetic and subtle.

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1. When the phone rang I had a bath.

2. You wore your new hat when I met you yesterday.

3. When it rained she carried an umbrella.

4. The house was much smaller than you thought at first.

5. When you played the piano, I wrote a letter.

6. Before you mentioned him, I never heard of that author.

7. My friends sang when I came into the room.

8. Rachel decided not to go out because it rained.

9. When he went to see them last night, they played cards. They said they were playing since six o'clock.

10. The little girl asked what happened to her ice-cream.

11. He ate dinner when I went to see him.

12. Last night Lyria listened to the radio when she heard a strange noise downstairs.

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It means about the pain the nature is bearing that how humans cruelly destroy them for their own uses like cutting down their branches , plucking their leaves for medicine , taking out their apples and it is reminding us that everything will and should be ok ,  that we must take a step to save the environment .

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Social Alienation.

It's the act of being repeatedly shunned by society is what pushes Frankenstein to be a monster.

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Colour is an adjective

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because Colour, Shapes

are adjectives

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ITS (A). the use of the pronouns “they” and “she”

     (E). thoughts and feelings of both Lizzie and Turner

Explanation:

The use of the pronouns she and he and the use of thoughts and feelings of both Turner and Lizzie are some clues that the narrator's point of view is third-person omniscient, hence option A and E are correct.

The term "third-person omniscient" describes a certain narrative style and point of view. The narrator is not participating in the plot, which is true of all third-person narration.

This is very different from the first person narration, in which the main character tells the tale.

In this passage from a book by American author Gary D. Schmidt, who also writes for children and young adults, we can see that the narrator uses the third-person singular pronouns he and she.

Turner isn't aware of all of Lizzie's actions, but the narrator is, proving that the narrator is omniscient.

Therefore, option A and E are correct.

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The central idea of the paragraph in this exceprt the author adopts is that her parents barely dealt with the circumstances of living under a dictatorship despite the humiliating tributes done by Trujillo they unwillingly made part of, so the best idea is the last option

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Having a career that aligns with who you are will make you an energetic, positive, and makes your life outside of work better. Your friends and family will notice the difference between when you like what you do and when you don't.

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it makes me not to be idle. it makes you somebody in your hometown. it gives you a chance to take care of yourself

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Assonance

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I m confused maybe it's assonance

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Thomas Jefferson organized his argument in the body of the Declaration of Independence by listing the:

the tactics the colonists used to rebel against the King of England. ways in which the king of England oppressed the colonists. benefits that the colonists would gain by seeking liberation from Britain.

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Answer: By the ways in which the King of England oppressed the colonists

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The statement that supports the idea from the quoted excerpt is:

B. Hamilton feared that those tasked with creating the new constitution would oppose reforms that limited their power.

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It is B because the excerpt mentioned that certain social class was resistant to accept the changes proposed because they were afraid that those changes could diminish their power.

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A. Hamilton believed politician's narrow-mindedness would have a negative effect.

"Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties."

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A)  Both Brutus and Antony ask rhetorical questions to make points.

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Brutus and Antony both ask rhetorical questions. Isn't it? "Would you rather Caesar live and all slaves die than Caesar die and all free men live? ...Who is a bondman here?" Asks Antony "Did Caesar appear ambitious? Was it a goal?"

The other choices are incorrect. Brutus' ambition is not positive. He says he killed Caesar for his ambition. He probably wouldn't have killed him if he valued ambition. They didn't mention Caesar's flaws. Using the pronoun "you" directly addresses the crowd.

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A)  Both Brutus and Antony ask rhetorical questions to make points.

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Long ago, there was a man named George who always dreamed of being a director or an actor in a play. He wanted to make his play in a theatre and he did. This man first got his love for acting at the age of twelve. George's parents thought that things like going to a theatre and watching people sing and dance was a waste of time. He watched the first play in his life when he got separated from his parents at a grocery store in a mall. The ten-year-old kid was following his parents but tripped and fell in a pile of water bottles and food containers that were stacked in the store. When he looked up to find his parents, they were out of sight. He walked around the store looking for his parents, calling them "Mom. Dad. Where are you?" After thirty minutes, it seemed hopeless for George. He just sat, waiting for the moment when his parents would arrive. After a few minutes, a man walked up to him. The man introduced himself. His name was Freddy. "Where are your parents?" Freddy asked him. "I'm lost and don't know where my parents are," George said sadly. "Let me take you to the security. You know your parent's phone number, right?" George knew his parents told him that he shouldn't be talking to strangers, especially about things like this, but he was hopeless at the time, "Yes, I know my parent's phone number." While they walked to the security manager at the entrance at the store, the man asked George if he had heard of the newest play at the theater nearby. "I have never seen a play in my life," George replied. Freddy seemed very surprised. "My parents don't like things like plays. They say that they are a waste of time," George said. "Oh. That's unfortunate. I think the plays are amazing. Anyway, why don't tell the security officer what happened," Freddy said. The security officer called George’s parents and they came in a minute. His parents ran to hug George, "Are you okay?" both his mom and dad said at once. "I'm fine," George said calmly. They looked over to see Freddy standing at the corner. In an instant, George's dad went over to him. They knew each other from their job. The mom came over and thanked Freddy for taking care of her child. "Ahem," the security officer cleared his throat. "Oh, sorry, officer," said George's mom. She and George's dad explained that they did not notice that George was not there until they entered an elevator. When they entered the elevator and noticed the door had already shut. The elevator ended up getting stuck and the doors were jammed. They also said that they just came out of the elevator when the call came to them. "I'll let you off with a warning, you must be more responsible, and you should have called the mall security to make sure your child was safe," the officer said. The parents nodded and agreed. Before they went home Freddy requested to take George to a play at the nearby theater. Even though the parents did not want their child to go, they thought about all Freddy had done for them, "You can take him to the theatre, but do you want us to come?" The man shook his head "I think George and I will be fine on our own, right George?" George nodded eagerly. "Well, you better get going, or then the theatre will be closed at this rate." George's dad chuckled. That night for the young child was probably his best. He asked Freddy to suggest a play and Freddy said that the play with a title of Pirate Adventures was one of his favorites. The play was about pirates that were looking for treasure. One of the pirates, who was the only one who had a beard and a mustache had broken the ship because he did not pay attention to a giant rock right in front of it. Luckily, the pirates were fiercer than ever and got out of the ship and were safe. Then they found sunken treasure under the island. "This can't get better. Imagine if I could make a play like that," George whispered as he stood up and started getting ready to leave the theater.

Explanation:

This sentence has only one independent clause ("Jennifer planned to bake cookies"), which can stand alone as a complete sentence. It does not contain any dependent clauses or coordinating conjunctions, which are necessary for a compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. Hence, option A is correct.

A simple sentence is a type of sentence that consists of one independent clause, which is a complete thought that can stand on its own. It typically contains a subject and a verb and expresses a single idea or a complete thought.

Examples of simple sentences:

The cat sat on the mat.

She enjoys playing the piano.

He ran to catch the bus.

Note that a simple sentence can also include modifiers, such as adjectives or adverbs, to add more information or detail. However, it still contains only one subject-verb combination and expresses a single complete thought.

The given one is an example of simple sentence. Hence, option A is correct.

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love

marriage

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not sure wat it is, is there a word bank?

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unloved treatment

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it can be his love to her is not ok

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To

The District Chief Executive

Lahore

July 17, 2021

Subject:  

Respected Sir:

I, a resident of Model Town Extension, on behalf of the residents of the area, write to your esteemed self to request you to look into the problem of inadequate water supply. The mercury has gone beyond 40° Celsius; the heat wave has been very intense. Water is the only source of relief in such an oppressive weather. However, the harsh reality is water supply is not only poor, but also erratic!  As a result the residents of Model Town  Extension have been facing severe water shortage for many weeks. Housewives don't have enough water for washing, cooking, cleaning, etc. The residents are forced to make alternative arrangements for water supply by hiring water tankers. We have already written letters to Water Supply Department but to no avail. Meanwhile the Municipality is able to provide permanent water supply, potable water can be supplied to the colony through portable tankers.  

I on behalf of all the residents appeal to you to look into the problem and relieve us of the inconvenience we have been facing. We shall be exceedingly thankful for the prompt solution to our distress.

Thank you,

Yours truly,

X.Y.Z

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Answer is D

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I just took it

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A) The majority of folk tales involve danger that the main character faces, which often involves family members. Stories like “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Snow White” are based on life-threatening family situations that the main characters have to escape.

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