Which of the following sentences correctly uses a transition to indicate a shift in time frame?
a. with a shaky voice, shane told his friend that he’d crashed the bike he’d borrowed.
b. after the storm ended, the players gathered all their equipment and headed for the soccer field.
c. unfortunately, not one of my friends could remember the name of the book we were supposed to read.
d. the restless kids had been trapped in the house for hours and were desperate to run out into the snow.

Which revision of the sentence most effectively incorporates the literary term characterized?

In chapter 3, scout criticizes her classmate, walter cunningham, for asking for molasses and then pouring it on his vegetables and meat while he was a guest at the finch home. in this scene, what does the author’s use of flashback in a first person point-of- view narration achieve?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.