Read Each of the Following Essay Introductions

question 17

Multiple Choice

Read each of the following essay introductions. Then select the letter of the method the writer used to begin the composition. The essay below begins with a(n)
One day in 1946, Percy Spencer stuck a chocolate bar in his pocket and went to work. Later, standing next to the radar machine he was working on, he noticed that his chocolate bar had melted. Almost immediately, Spencer saw the possibilities, sent for unpopped popcorn, and invented the first microwave oven ⎯ marketed the following year as the "radar range." The microwave is just one of many important inventions created out of the interaction of two factors: a lucky accident and the presence of a trained person who understood what that accident meant.

• A) single-sentence thesis statement.
• B) contradiction.
• C) illustration.

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Definitions:

Contract Determination

The process of establishing the terms of a contract, including its obligations, benefits, and conditions, often through negotiation.

Enforcement

The act of compelling compliance with a law, rule, agreement, or order.

Acceptance

In contract law, an expression of agreement to the terms of an offer that results in a binding contract between the parties.

Auctioneer

A person or entity that conducts sales in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.