Combination of some type of designs or styles is a pattern
The best answer would be Letter B - to entertain.
The author merely would like to provide amusement to the readers at his expense. It certainly does not persuade, explain, nor inform anything since it states - <span>But why bother with the descriptions; you’ve probably already grasped the idea!</span> - which could be taken as a witticism.
All these sentences use the word "so" correctly except "Flies breathe through holes in
<span> their abdomen or thorax, so do bees.</span>" So should either begin a new sentence of be preceded by "and".