Read the topic sentence from a paragraph from aaron's comparative essay. like a crime movie, an episode from a television crime series generally focuses on the commission and investigation of a crime. what can be inferred about the rest of the essay from this sentence? select four options. the essay compares movies and books. the preceding paragraph was about crime movies. the essay compares genres of visual crime fiction. the essay shows that movies are more artistic than television. this paragraph will offer details about episodic crime series. the later paragraphs will present a comparison of the genres.

The correct four options that infer about the rest of the essay are:

*The preceding paragraph was about crime movies.

*The essay compares genres of visual crime fiction.

*This paragraph will offer details about episodic crime series.

*The later paragraphs will present a comparison of the genres.

Given the terms and connectors used in the topic sentence presented above, one can infer that the essay will be about a comparison between the genres of visual crime fiction. The preceding paragraph to this topic sentence was about crime movies, since the phrase used “Like a crime movie” restates the topic that has been mentioned before. The paragraph of the topic sentence will develop the characteristics of episodic crime series. Finally, after describing the details of the two genres, the later paragraphs will develop the comparison of such genres (crime movies and episodic crime series).

Explanation:

To get the answer above we have to read the excerpt and observe logical information that was between the lines.  In the first reading we make of the excerpt, it is already possible to see that the mainstay is about a comparison of genres of visual crime fiction, since the author makes very clear the subject that is being treated.

When the author says "Like a crime movie" we can understand that he / she is using this sentence as a bridge between the current paragraph and the previous paragraph. Thus, we can conclude that the previous paragraph was about police films.

This bridge was made in order to introduce the subject for episodic crime series, for this reason we can conclude that in the current paragraph the author will bring details about episodic crime series.

Since in one paragraph the author talked about films and in the other paragraph about episodic crime series, we can conclude that the following paragraphs will present a comparison of the genres.

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