Read the following passage:
at 2: 15, benzino alerted me that maggie's heart rate was
suddenly elevated. i glanced out the window and didn't see
her in the backyard. "send out the drone." within moments,
benzino was relaying an image of maggie leaning against
a tree and holding her ankle. we both trotted out through
the backyard and into the woods. benzino located maggie
immediately as i followed. maggie wrapped her little arms
around benzino and cried, "i knew you'd rescue me! " |
stood by awkwardly as benzino began to assess her injury.
which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?
a. the advantages of technology and the desire for human
interaction
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b. personal safety and the potential of computers
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c. nonhuman intelligence and the need to fit in
d. advances in society and the struggle to survive

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

When doing a close reading, what is involved in the process of annotating a text?

Which statement correctly analyzes how the passages work together to create a central idea?