Read this excerpt from a student's persuasive essay about smoking. What is the problem with the argument?

If you smoke while pregnant you will have an underweight baby.

Faulty statistics

Either/or argument

Circular reasoning

False comparison

Read the following summary. In the story of Jane Eyre, Jane is a determined and intelligent young girl who loves to read and study. When her uncaring aunt places her in a boarding school where the schoolmaster is cruel, Jane wants to escape.

Which statement best identifies the central idea of the text shakespeare

Some of these sentences contain misplaced modifiers and unclear modifiers. Draw an arrow from the misplaced modifier to the more appropriate location. After finishing a huge dinner, he only ate a few cherries for dessert.

which plot element provides background information, introduces the main characters, and establishes the conflict?

Reread lines 20-21. What is the meaning of these lines?

What was one major historical event between 1890 and present day that might of effected the events in the time machine

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper." I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it.

In a perfect world ...

Why may pizza be considered a art?

What is the theme of the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole"?