Answer:
<u>B. My day at school was a marathon and a triathlon combined.</u>
Explanation:
The other three choices are things that could be true.
A day cannot feel like a marathon, so option B is using figurative language.
B, since none of the other answer choices seem correct.
Answer:
Why are their numbers declining?
Explanation:
The combined impacts of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, habitat degradation, human population growth, poaching, disease, war and civil unrest threaten the remaining giraffe numbers and their distribution throughout Africa.
Implied (or implicit) textual evidence is suggested but not directly stated. When a reader comes across implied textual evidence, they have to:
put together details in the text to draw a conclusion and make educated guesses.
Reading between the lines is very vague, but you do have to infer (or draw a conclusion) with this technique.
Finding direct statements in the text that leave no room for doubt is explicit evidence (directly stated). This is the only one I would not mark.
Anecdote would be the correct answer
