5. select the correct inference of the given passage from “the cask of amontillado.”
“against the new masonry i re-erected the old rampart of bones. for the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. in pace requiescat! ”
a. montresor spent fifty years building the wall.
b. fortunato has never been found.
c. montresor buried all of the old bones.
d. fortunato has been sleeping for fifty years

Which statement best describes the authors use of a claim and a counterclaim in the passage

How would you check a statement to determine that it is a simile?

1point for this topic sentence, what would not be a good concluding sentence for the paragraph? topic sentence: the u.s. government's resistance to put polar bears on the list of endangered species has allowed for the continued decrease of the already threatened population. o a. any more delay will surely result in the continued loss of polar bear populations. o b. i saw a polar bear in a zoo, and it looked sad to not be in the wild o c. without swift action, polar bears may soon be extinct in the wild. o d. any of these would be a good concluding sentence,