Well I’m not sure if this is the movie top secret of WW2 but whatever it is a journal entry is a 2-5 sentence summary.
The effectiveness of a speech tags is more often related to how you used it rather than what type of speech tag it is
It is used to alert the readers about a sentence that is directly spoken
hope this helps
The topic sentence of the following paragraph would be A. Chess is a challenging game that can be a lot of fun once someone learns to play.
The answer is the struggle between realistic and supernatural elements