Which best describes this sentence? the free gift she received was an unexpected surprise. a) the sentence is concise and free of error. b) the sentence needs revision to remove redundancy. c) the sentence has been revised to avoid redundancy. d) the sentence is concise but contains distracting errors.

B)The sentence needs revision to remove redundancy.

Redundancy occurs when the same thing is said more than once. This can happen in writing especially through use of adjectives and adverbs. A perfect example would be "The silent mouse quietly explored the house." In this case, the mouse has already been described as silent so to use the adverb quietly to describe how he explored is redundant. In the sentence for the prompt, the redundancy is unexpected surprise. A surprise is something the object of the surprise did not see coming. It is unexpected. By describing the surprise as unexpected, the speaker is repeating him/herself.

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

huck's relationship with food is a prominent theme throughout the novel, and during his time on jackson's island and working his way down river, huck revels in and enjoys his ad hoc dining. in the first chapter, we observe huck is ironically trapped in a "civilized" world, when he would prefer to live freely in nature.