What type of thinking could be describes as taking different directions in search of a variety of answers to a question

How does this image the reader to understand seismographs?

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes