They are both told for entertainment purposes, and, more importantly, to relate a moral- a life lesson.
I believe the answer you want is A.
I think the complete question would be;
Which technique is the author using in this passage to reveal the character’s traits?
passage from the grapes of wrath muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the hateful look of a bad child. the mouth was held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half fretful.
is:
<em>the Imagery used in describing the details about the face, and the metaphor used in comparing it to a child's face. These details tell the reader about the character's personality.</em>
Since before recorded history, environmental changes have affected things people value. In consequence, people have migrated or changed their ways of living as polar ice advanced and retreated, endured crop failures or altered their crops when temperature and rainfall patterns changed, and made numerous other adjustments in individual and collective behavior. Until very recently, people have responded to global phenomena as if they were local, have not organized their responses as government policies, and have not been able to respond by deliberately altering the course of the global changes themselves. Things are different now from what they have been for millennia.
The central idea of the article is to show that the experiments with human beings have already been done in scary ways.
