What are the details in a sentence or paragraph that can you find the meaning of an unfamiliar word?
a. dictionaries
b. context clues
c. other people
d. clarification items

The details in a sentence or paragraph that can help you find the meaning of an unfamiliar word are B. context clues.

Explanation: Context clues are words or phrases that function as hints as they help readers to infer the meaning of a word or phrase that is part of the same sentence or paragraph, but that is unknown. These hints may be found before the unknown word or after it. Moreover, there are different types of context clues: definition clues, synonym clues, antonym clues, general context clues and punctuation.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”