‘My cousin likes to exaggerate when he tells stories’ is the right answer
I believe the answer is D. The horrid brute shot stabbing flames from his blackened fingertips.
I had begun by tracing the Japanese characters with a pencil.
*begun is a past participle
Facial expressions and speech balloons. Explanation: From the excerpt from Persepolis, the elements the author used most to develop the central idea of these panels was facial expressions and speech balloons.