Answer:
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".
Meanwhile, Yoyo was on her knees, weeping wildly, collecting all the little pieces of her speech, hoping that she could put it back together before the assembly tomorrow morning. But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper. All hope was lost. "He broke it, he broke it," Yoyo moaned as she picked up a handful of pieces.
What conflict does Yoyo face in this excerpt?
Explanation:
Answer:
Despite his passionate argument that rock lyrics are poetry, Dan DeLuca fails to convince.
Explanation:
According to a different source, these are the options that come with this question:
- When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it sparked a major controversy.
- Dan DeLuca has written an editorial stating his opinion that rock lyrics are poetry.
- I really enjoyed reading Dan DeLuca's article about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize.
- Despite his passionate argument that rock lyrics are poetry, Dan DeLuca fails to convince.
A thesis statement is the main claim that an author makes in a text. This claim expresses the ideas that the author wants to defend, and which he expands on in the rest of the text. Therefore, a thesis statement needs to express a clear opinion, or take a particular position on a subject. In this case, the option that does this is option D.
Rukeyser wrote this poem in 1968 amidst the Vietnam war, Civil Rights Movement and similar political and social trends. The poem has got a morning and evening phases, respectively describing war and peace where the evening phase begins with the lines "As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened". The content of the lines is associated with the peace and the victory of this idea. Therefore, the correct answer is C.
