The blues are a form of Folk Music created by African Americans in the South and the early 1900s the origins of this musical form are uncertain bus scholars believe that works songs and church music played important roles during the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s African-American musicians brought the blues North to our city such as Chicago characteristics of the blue strongly influenced the development of other musical genres including Jazz country rock and roll and rhythm and blues.

Question

The blues are primarily a lyrical song musical form that is characterized by word extended over several different notes and pictures that are slightly lower or flatter than what is usual the Rhythm usually has syncopation and the mood is one of sadness often because of lost love performances often take a call and response form in which the singer sings a sentence in the instrumentalist response instruments most often used in blue bands or guitar piano bass guitar and Trump's breasts instruments often with me and saxophones are also common
How does the writer create cohesion between the first and second paragraph of this explanatory text?
A. by using the word primarily in the second paragraph
B. by using the word but in the first paragraph
C. by repeating the idea that the blues is a lyric form
D. by repeating the idea that the blues is a musical form

Answer 1

The writer creates cohesion between the first and second paragraphs of this explanatory text by:

C. by repeating the idea that the blues is a lyric form.

The second paragraph expands on the characteristics of the blues as a lyrical song form, linking back to the earlier mention of the blues as a musical form in the first paragraph.