How can a reader determine the theme of a piece of literature
by considering a character’s growth, the author’s tone, and the effect of the piece on the reader

by identifying point of view, genre, and sentence structure

by analyzing figures of speech and rhetorical devices found in the piece

by locating the topic sentence and using it as the theme statement

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. experts have blamed caffeine for bone loss among older women. but a university study of 138 older women found that caffeine had no such effect. in that study, women who drank more than five cups of coffee a day had the same bone density as women who got little caffeine. 1. bone loss among older women is not a problem. 2. the experts who blamed caffeine for bone loss may be wrong. 3. caffeine causes healthy bones. 4. some older wome