What is the best example of use of supporting details for literary analysis? a. the author uses images such as the “thud” of the body hitting the ground, the “slumped corpse” and “the crimson trickle” to bring the violence to life. b. when the writer describes the war, he uses words that make pictures. c. the reader learns fortunato's motives by what he thinks instead of what he says. d. rainsford's struggle is also about man versus nature.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.