Informational Text Features

Question 9 • MO-English Language Arts 9 B-CR

Why would a writer offer this comparison and contrast of the Titan and the Titanic before the book begins?

Answer

to draw the reader into the text by stimulating curiosity

to convince the reader that Morgan Robertson was psychic

to show the reader that the Titanic was cursed by Robertson

to tell Morgan Robertson’s entire story to the reader in the pages of the book

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