Answer:
The author's use of simile:
B. It helps the reader visualize the increased number of exoplanets discovered.
Explanation:
A simile is a figure of speech used with the intention of making a comparison - stating a similarity - between two different things. A simile needs help of words such as "as" or "like".
In the text, the discovery of planets and exoplanets was compared to billiard balls in a pool game. First, discovering planets was similar to a regular game, in which it is easy to see and count the balls. But, <u>as more and more exoplanets were discovered, scientists could no longer run tally.</u> That is why it was like a pool player making a big, smashing break: planets, like the billiard balls, were everywhere. The text moves on the describe it as an <u>"inordinate number"</u>. Therefore, <u>we can say safely say the simile is being used to help the reader visualize the increased number of exoplanets discovered.</u>
The line that illustrates this is a song of unrequited love is, "I am slain by a fair cruel maid." The rejection has made the man feel as though he has been killed. Later on, the theme is reinforced with the line, "Lay me, O, where sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!" The speaker has been hurt by the unrequited love and tells the audience the true love will regret it when he's dead.
<span>To find good players, he scouted women’s softball clubs, which were very popular at that time.
The two original sentences are complete, so the best way to combine them is with a comma and a conjunction word. "Which" is the best choice of a conjunction word because it's allowing the author to continue describing softball clubs which are the subject of the sentence. </span>
