Paragraph coherence occurs when the ideas in a paragraph are linked and there is a logical flow from one idea to the next.
1. Which of the following are techniques that you can use to help the reader follow your ideas?
Check all that apply.
O Use longer paragraphs.
O Avoid repetition of the same word more than once.
O Repeat a key idea by using the same expression or a similar one.
O Use bullets and lists to connect similar ideas.
O Show connections with transitional expressions.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.