This question is missing the excerpt. I will not add it here because it is quite long, but the complete question can be easily found online. The excerpt belong to "The Travels of Marco Polo".
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The option that indicates that the author's purpose is to inform readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar is:
A. The author shares facts and specific details about the difficulty of sailing in the region.
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Marco Polo was a Venetian adventurer who lived from 1254 to 1324. "The Travels of Marco Polo" is a book based on his trips and discoveries and written by Rusticiano de Pisa, who met Polo and had the chance to hear the adventurer himself tell the stories.
<u>In the excerpt that can be found online, the author is informing readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar. The passage is written as it it were Polo himself describing the difficult travel conditions in the region. He provides readers with facts about the currents that prevent ships from going a certain direction. According to him, the currents are always southward. A ship may take 20 days to go a certain way, but three months to return precisely because of the currents.</u>
The author used DETAILED DESCRIPTION to create compelling characters in the passage given above.
From the passage given above, it can be seen that the author took his time to describe the characters and the settings in details. This gives the readers the opportunity to mentally picture the characters and the settings in the story.
Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.
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When we read this poem aloud, we can't help but inflect (raise) our voices at the end of each question. The result is a sound that doesn't quite ever settle down; every line sounds like an airplane taking off into the sky. We can't forget that Langston was a part of the Harlem Renaissance.
So he shared music through poetry, and poetry through music. Hughes’s love for the music found its way to the page, giving rise to the fusion genre known as jazz poetry. Rhythm is what makes music as well as poetry.
The flowing of words, the instruments smooth melody; all a part of the greater meaning, poetry. In fact, there's even a form of poetry which is made into music called lyrical poems. They are just that, musical lyrics.
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