Read this paragraph. when javier arrived at his first meet, his coach jogged toward him breathlessly. he alerted javier that swimmers were already lining up for his first event, the fifty-meter freestyle. the coach ushered him to the clerk of the course, signed him in, and got him seated with the other swimmers in his heat. javier tugged on his cap and nervously tapped his feet. soon the group was asked to proceed to the starting blocks. javier glanced left and right, and the starter’s signal sounded. before he knew it, he was reaching for the wall in his final stretch, with all of his competitors behind him. with relief, he confirmed that his time was the fastest. which statement best summarizes this paragraph?

Theme is question 26 options: the way the story is presented. overarching ideas that are presented in the story. the author�s message that he or she is communicating to readers. the way the story makes the reader feel.

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.

Select the sentence with the dangling modifier. which highlighted ones is it? it can only be one.