I believe it’s called an antecedent.
Answer:
A. The boat
Explanation:
"If you were to hit it you would knock the boat's brains out" & "She won't want to mount the reef; a boat hates shoal water." boats do not have brainsor wants- an exp. of personified writting.
Taking the ice cream cone after buying it .
For question excerpt number 1, <span>Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate’s defeat explains how Garcia’s word choice identifies her voice in the excerpt.
Same as excerpt number 2 in which the statement "</span>Soto relates a story from his life to make a point about what it means to live in a multicultural society" explains how Soto's established his voice in the passage.
Both statement explains how the structures of the excerpts are similar because "Each presents factual evidence to appeal to the reader’s logic".
