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Excerpt from art in the hand craftsman by Oscar Wilde
People often talk as if there was an opposition between what is beautiful and what is useful there is no opposition to beauty except ugliness all things are either beautiful or ugly (underlined text) utility will always be on the side of the beautiful thing because beautiful decoration is always an expression of the use you put a thing to in the value place down that( back to normal text) That’s the beauty of life is an important I suppose few people will try to argue in yet most civilized people act as if beauty were insignificant in doing so they wrong both themselves in those that are to come after them for the beauty of our is no mere accident A human life with people can take or leave it is an absolutely necessity of life if we are meant to live as nature Memphis that is unless we are content to be less than men
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What characteristic of the text is the underlined sentence and how does it connect ideas in the text
Underlined sentence is _______
A: The thesis statement of the text B: A topic sentence in the text C: The conclusion of the text D: A relavant example in the text
It connects ideas in the text by______
A: describing the main idea of the text evidence and reasoning support B: trying together the various ideas discussed throughout the text and explaining why they matter to people C: providing specific evidence to support the texts main idea D: introducing a small claim that supports the texts main idea