The Paragraph Below Is Developed by a Specific Mode or Pattern

question 15

Multiple Choice

The paragraph below is developed by a specific mode or pattern. Read the paragraph; then answer the question(s) .
(1) I hadn't seen my childhood bedroom in the two years since I had left for France. (2) My parents kept everything in place, as if I had never left. (3) An enormous poster of Michael Jordan was still tacked to the front of the door. (4) On the wall were markings of my height, from age three to eighteen. (5) In the bookcase next to my bed stood all the science fiction novels and copies of Sports Illustrated that I had read in middle and high school. (6) Above the bed, a model airplane hung, suspended by thin wires. (7) I lay on the bed, now too small for me, and watched the model airplane move gently in the breeze.
Select the type of development the writer of this paragraph has used.

• A) illustration
• B) narration
• C) description
• D) process
• E) definition
• F) persuasion
• G) classification
• H) cause/effect

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Definitions:

Correlational Research

A research method that examines the relationship between two or more variables to determine if they are associated.

Prediction

The act of making statements or claims about events that will happen in the future based on past and present information or data.

Normal Curve

A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data where most of the observations cluster around the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.