"How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale." Which statement best describes the way the author unfolds ideas in this paragraph? The author starts with the main idea and gives evidence to support it, the author gives supporting details first and concludes with the main idea, the author gives a supporting detail and reveals the main idea followed by detail, the author starts with the main idea and then re-stated in several different ways?

The author gives supporting details first and concludes with the main idea.

Explanation:

The paragraph you were given is the following:

What compelled the Grimms to concentrate on old German epics, tales, and literature was a belief that the most natural and pure forms of culture—those which held the community together—were linguistic and based in history. According to them, modern literature, even though it might be remarkably rich, was artificial and thus could not express the genuine essence of Volk culture that emanated naturally from experience and bound the people together. Therefore, all their efforts went toward uncovering stories from the past.

In this paragraph, the author gives supporting details first and concludes with the main idea.

The main idea of a text is the main point the author is making. Supporting details are facts, statements, and examples that clarify, explain, describe, expand, or illustrate the main idea.

The main idea of the given paragraph is that the Grimm brothers focused on uncovering stories from the past. The previous statements explain why they did that - because they believed that the most natural and pure forms of culture were linguistic and based in history.

This is why the second option is the correct one.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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