While you are proofreading the text for grammar mistakes, you could evaluate the text by asking yourself the following questions.
What is the main idea?
What is the writer trying to say?
What rhetorical devices does the author use?
Did the writer organize his essay so that the reader will not be confused?
Was the writer able to bring about his point?
Did the introduction help start off the essay?
Did the writer conclude appropriately?
Did the writer use appropriate transitions to link ideas?
It will be hard evaluating and proofreading an essay at the same time as humans cannot multitask. I suggest doing them both separately.
It would be a, because thats the only one that is true
Answer: A teen gang in rural Oklahoma, the Greasers are perpetually at odds with the Socials, a rival group. When Greasers Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio) get into a brawl that ends in the death of a Social member, the boys are forced to go into hiding. Soon Ponyboy and Johnny, along with the intense Dallas (Matt Dillon) and their other Greaser buddies, must contend with the consequences of their violent lives. While some Greasers try to achieve redemption, others meet tragic ends.
Explanation: I read the book with my class I hope this helps!
After doing some online searching, I've found that this question refers to figurative language. It is not an incomplete question, it was just missing the context for people to be able to understand it. Now that I know what it is about, I can safely answer:
Answer:
Simile.
Explanation:
In the phrase "Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed" we have something being compared to something else. Even though we don't know what it is, we know it is compared to burnt-out torches.<u> The comparison was made with the help of a support word, "like".</u> Its purpose it to attribute one or more qualities of a burnt-out torch to something else by saying they are similar. <u>Comparisons that use support words are called </u><u>simile.</u> They are a very common figure of speech along with metaphors, with the difference that metaphors also make comparisons, but without using support words.
Instead of "his, " use "its"
Im not sure though
