No the killer whale is not even close in comparison to the blue whale.
Annotating is considered an active reading strategy, because you are reading the text as well as marking it and understanding it by annotating it, which also gives you things to look at later. The rest of the options are not typically done while reading. :)
The chairman's of the Board microphone was turned off, so we could not hear what he said.
I think it is a narrative poem (^^)