Answer:
D, as background sets the scene and is the theme of the novel.
Explanation:
The cause is a person eating a bat or something to do with the wet market in wuhan. The effect is people dying, economy dying because of closed hospitality and lockdown. And schools went online with exams being cancelled.
And people’s mental health declining because of it.
The first stanza contains an epic simile. "As wasps, provoked by children in their play" establishes the comparison to a hive of wasps provoked to attack by thoughtless children playing near (or directly messing with) the hive. Note that this is a simile because it makes a direct comparison (it uses "like" or "as" to directly compare two ideas)
Id say that its “to persuade your reader that you have a reasonable position”
Answer: I would go with A and C
I'm not 100% sure so i'm really sorry if you get it wrong
