Answer:
It signals that the sentence will explain what Tamanika did despite the rain.
Explanation:
"Although" is a subordinating conjunction that usually denotes the existence of an obstacle or some unfavorable conditions. However, despite them, the intented plan or an action has been performed.
Here, we see that Tamanika went for a walk despite the rain outside.
That means that this conjunction denotes an opposition between existing conditions and the outcome of the action. Conditions don't always need to be unfavorable, they only need to be opposite of the result. For example: "Although he had a clear shot, he missed the entire goal."
Speaker's brave conquests are mentioned or at least cited in the following options from the excerpt:
- <em>Option 1</em>, in which he tells about his innumerable combats he had won.
- <em>Option 4 </em>also celebrates his fight with Grendel.
- In <em>Option 6</em>, the speaker is showing us how valiant his action in the field of war can be.
Therefore, I assume, from my understanding, that these are the three statements from the provided excerpt which focus on the narrators heroic accomplishments.
The correct answer is C. (Perenson 30)
Explanation:
In writing, a citation refers to the use of the words and ideas of an external source and therefore another author, which is commonly used to support and explain the ideas during a text. According to the MLA manual and other style manuals for writing academical paper when using the ideas or words of another author it is necessary to make clear which ideas are being used and to whom they belong, this is done by using in-text citation during the text and creating a work cited list at the end of the document with all the information of the source cited.
In the case of printed articles from magazines or similar publications, it is established during in-text citation it is necessary to include the last name of the author of the article followed by the page number which is usually done by including this information in parenthesis or doing a parenthetical citation. This means in the case of the source presented the parenthetical citation should include the last name of the author "Perenson" and the page number "30" therefore the option that shows the correct parenthetical citation of this source is (Perenson 30).
