Example is,According to (author’s name),”......”(page #). Clearly, (author’s name) is trying to say that ......
yes and no i smell my son watching the cats orb, yet i pounce and his pants slide down and his penis is starting to grow longer. now he is f#cking the cat.
If the options are metaphor, alliteration, allusion, and apostrophe, I believe the answer is metaphor, because the others don't fit.
Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant.
Allusion is reference to something or somebody outside of that literary work.
And apostrophe is the author speaking directly to somebody outside the poem, usually gods or a muse.
States facts and evidence to back up his or her claim, and gradually persuasively create a convincing controversy to help his or her claim