From the passage the “first appearance”by mark twain which sentence from the speech best supports the answer and question in part 3 which is “twain illustrates a common problem by telling a story about his experiences.” a-“my knees were shaking so that i didn’t know whether i could stand up” b- “i knew nothing about short compulsion would get me to the theater” c- “ it was on a little ship on which there was 200 other passengers” d- “i walked up and down i was young in those days and needed the exercise and talked and talked”

no its not this is a very legal platform

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.

answer: metaphor: because there is a comparison between the treasures spread on the ground and the evil seed of adam drifting from the shoreline  

explanation: