What effect does the use of a literary device have on the meaning of this passage?
Think of your essay as a body. If the skeleton of your idea is strong,
your writing will be flexible and powerful, but if it's weak, your essay
won't be able to stand on its own.
A. It explains the main point by using a comparison.
B. It conveys the message in a short, memorable statement.
C. It gives human attributes to something nonhuman.
D. It explains a complex idea by referencing a famous example.

What was the main idea or message taught by the ballad, "king john and the abbot of canterbury"?

Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.