Which of the following statements best describes the urn as Keats depicts it in the final stanza of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? Support your answer choice, citing details from the poem. a. The urn is made of marble and elaborately shaped. b. The urn is elegant and simply shaped with a pattern of Greek human figures. c. The urn is stately, with a shape that reminds Keats of a human figure. d. The urn is graceful and simple with a gray, veined surface like marble.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

answer: #1 is (a) however

explanation:

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

answer; /// the above statement is (true);