How does character motivation affect a story's plot? it clarifies the theme of the plot. it offers inferences about the plot. it determines the plot elements. it move the plot forward?

Character motivation matter because it helps move the plot forward.

What makes a fiction rich is through a character's motivation, goals, conflicts, desires, and insight. The characters interest and motivation majorly drive the story. When the reader connects with the character they also connect with the story strongly.

The character-driven story helps in the creation of inner debate and decision-making opportunities. Therefore, story events are driven through the character. Events are secondary as they occur through character's thoughts, growth, and emotion.

It helps move the plot forward? just took the tested

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

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