Read this excerpt from King Arthur's Socks: A Comedy in One Act. (Enter, from the side door, Mary, the pretty servant girl, who fusses about at the back of the room.) What do the stage directions reveal about Mary? Her fidgeting suggests that she is nervous about sharing her thoughts. Her efforts illustrate contentment with her social status and her work. Her entry from the side underlines her devious mannerisms. Her apparent beauty implies that her character is a romantic.

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.

the italian poet francesco petrarch did! (:

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."

the objective should be switched