(1) Correct the run-on sentence. Do not add additional details to the sentence. The enjoy riding roller coasters I would ride them every day if I could.

(2) Correct the run-on sentence. Do not add additional details to the sentence:

Jennifer wants to buy some shoes, then she wants to go to Olive Garden.

(3) Correct the sentence fragment. Do not add additional details to the sentence:

Robert met his long-lost daughter. Who had been searching for him over twenty years.

(4) Correct the sentence fragment. (You may add additional details to this ONE sentence)

Because the cities receive cool breezes and warm water from the Gulf of Mexico.

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

third person

explanation:

note the usage of names and pronouns, "james" & "the old man". this alone can confirm it as third person, as first person uses "i" and the like, while second person uses "you" and the like.

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they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.

the correct answer is d. a discussion of specific uses of alliteration

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when you are critiquing or evaluating a poem, you will mostly pay attention to the theme, as well as figures of speech and rhythm. alliteration is a figure of speech where consonants are repeated in neighboring words - and it is important for analysis of sound and rhythm, which is why it might appear in the evaluation of that poem.