Which would be the best note to take if you were hearing the passage read aloud and wanted to record the most important point? o’connor is a wonderful southern writer. the speaker loves reading essays. the speaker is a southern author. stories must have a mystery of character.

Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.

What do mcmahon’s references to thomas carlyle and john stuart mill do for his own image and credibility?

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.