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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• A copyright prevents a book’s contents from being reproduced (published) without permission from the copyright holder.
• When a book’s copyright expires, the book enters the public domain and can be legally reproduced by anyone.
• Observations is a poetry collection by Marianne Moore.
• It entered the public domain in 2020.
• The Mother’s Recompense is a novel by Edith Wharton.
• It entered the public domain in 2021.

The student wants to emphasize a similarity between Marianne Moore and Edith Wharton. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

Both Observations and The Mother’s Recompense are in the public domain; however, one is a poetry collection and the other a novel.

B

Marianne Moore and Edith Wharton are two authors whose works recently entered the public domain.

C

Observations, a poetry collection by Marianne Moore, entered the public domain in 2020, unlike Edith Wharton’s novel The Mother’s Recompense.

D

The year was 2021, and the copyright to Edith Wharton’s The Mother’s Recompense had finally expired.