Identifying the Central Idea Try it
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What is the central idea of the paragraph?
Another thing that changed very little in the years
between the wars was the means of obtaining military
intelligence. Although the use of photography and the
telegraph brought some technological advances, the craft
of spying on the enemy's army still relied on fieldwork.
For the most part, intelligence was gathered in simple
ways. Prisoners of war and deserters were interrogated.
The Union army was always interested in hearing what
runaway slaves had to report.
- The Dark Game,
Paul Janeczko
Technological advances made a difference in the
craft of spying.
Interrogations are an important way to obtain
information
The Union army gathered stories from runaway
slaves.
Intelligence was often gathered in simple ways,
such as relying on fieldwork.

What words or phrases you to recognize the historical context of the line 7

Read these sentences from the excerpt: i would sometimes say to them, i wished i could be as free as theywould be when they got to be men. "you will be free as soon as you aretwenty-one, but i am a slave for life! have not l as good a right to befree as you have? how does the use of a rhetorical question advance the author's purposeof showing that all people deserve freedom? it shows the reader that douglass is unsure of hisstatements.it indicates that douglass believes he deserves freedom.oit demonstrates that douglass is questioning his beliefs.it reminds the reader that some questions areunanswerable

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.