Use the passage and the drop-down menus to answer
the questions.
What type of detail doos Child use in this passage?
How does this excerpt develop the central idea?
For instance, heading toward a movie review program,
remember we asked: Who was the studio's first choice for
the Harry Callahan role in "Dirty Harry"?
We knew most viewers would be intrigued. (What, Clint
Eastwood wasn't the first choice?) But - and this was the
lesson - the success of the tactie didn't depend on
intrigue. Even viowors with no interest at all stuck around
to find out. Humans are hard-wired. They need to know,
A Simple Way to Create Suspense,
Lee Child

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir