The mimic octopus not only changes its color, but also its shape and behavior. It is able to imitate 15 different species. By changing the way it swims, it can look and act like a sea snake, stingray, jellyfish, and even a seashell. Changing its movement confuses predators, helping it flee to safety. It also helps it confuse prey and catch its next meal. The mimic octopus truly is a great example of how animals adapt to survive. Write one to two sentences describing the text structure of this paragraph.
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a) Topic sentence presents the main theme or focus of the paragraph.  This is done, in this paragraph, with the first sentence making some claims about the mimic octopus:  

"The mimic octopus not only changes its color but also, its shape and behavior."

b) Supporting sentences give more evidence, details, examples, and features about the main topic.  In this paragraph, the supporting sentences are: "It is able ...," "By changing ...," "Changing its ...," and "It also helps ..."

c) Concluding sentence:  This sentence summarizes the information.  The concluding sentence here is: "The mimic octopus truly is a great example of how animals adapt to survive."

Explanation:

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

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