What is the central idea of a text? a. the feeling or emotion that a text provokes in the reader b. a conclusion based on evidence and background knowledge c. a series of ideas that support a main point d. the main point the author is trying to make

What is the direct object in the following sentence? jerry asked him a question. a. question b. jerry c. asked

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

The attitude the speaker in this poem holds toward himself can best be described as