The essay tells a story about race relations in harlem. (Apex)
Our team has won more games than has any other team. - Sounds more illogical
Answer:
1. "It is a great Dead Place—greater than any Dead Place we know."
2. "Everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods."
Explanation:
Background or setting is the time and place of a tale, whether it be reality or fiction. As a literary element, it's a must. The location establishes the story's major backdrop and tone.
Passage:
It is not true what some of the tales say, that the ground there burns forever, for I have been there. Here and there were the marks and stains of the Great Burning, on the ruins, that is true. But they were old marks and old stains. It is not true either, what some of our priests say, that it is an island covered with fogs and enchantments. It is not. It is a great Dead Place—greater than any Dead Place we know. Everywhere in it there are god-roads, though most are cracked and broken. Everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods.
The purpose of this passage is to provide instructions on how to make tortillas; therefore it is an instructive type of text. One of the most common types of instructive texts is recipes. Recipes indicate step by step how to make a specific food. In this example, we can see how sequence connectors “next” and “finally” add cohesion to the text and relates the previous step with the other.
Answer:
The final sentence contributes to the end o the article to show we might have fun by doing something one way instead of the other and that we don't know we can enjoy it before doing it.
Explanation:
The sentences are used to point out that sometimes we act based on someone else's thoughts or opinions, and that might be not true. Also, sometimes we can find incredible experiences by trying to achieve our objectives by doing one action instead of others. That there is an infinite amount of probability we can't perceive what could be of value because we have not experienced it.
