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Author's Purpose Practice Question #4: Funeral

The funeral was just stretching on and on that sweaty Sunday in the middle of the summer. I took a look at my fingers, clammy and swollen from the dizzy heat, and ached to be splashing around in the creek behind the church. Daddy promised that the rain from Friday would cool everything down, but the sun just sucked up all that water just the same as it did year after year. All the women, dressed in black with funny-looking hats, whispered at each other and blew their noses into hankies as they tried to fan themselves cooler with the paper bulletin old lady Mathers had typed up just for this occasion. Preacher Tom yammered on and on in his booming voice like it was just another boring Sunday and no one had even died, while tiny little rivers of sweat made their way down the middle of my back. Miss Patterson, my favorite Sunday school teacher, whispered ‘cross the aisle to Daddy that “It’s a cryin’ shame, ya know.” Daddy shrugged his big old coal-mining shoulders and said, “The good Lord knows what’s best.” I knew he wasn’t really sad because he was a “hard-hearted man with no sense and no decency,” like Momma used to say when he’d come home smelling like whiskey.
The author most likely used the phrase "tiny little rivers of sweat made their way down the middle
of my back" in order to:
A. contrast the hot interior of the church during the funeral with the coolness of the creek.
B. compare the hot interior of the church during the funeral with the coolness of the creek.
C. identify the main reason the narrator was uncomfortable during the funeral.
D. intensify the description of the heat during the funeral.
why did you choose this answer ? (authors purpose)

Answer 1

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