C. Characterization.
"Characterization is a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence. After introducing the character, the writer often talks about his behavior; then, as the story progresses, the thought-processes of the character."
I believe it would be Evaluation, since we are evaluating the differences of two diets and their benefits.
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<span>Static-lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in a way viewed as undesirable or uninteresting.
It's saying the temperature was static till the wind blew. That means the temp stayed the same.</span>
Short term retirement usually involves being retired for a period of 3 to 5 years. Other options have little to do with retirement at all.