C. to persuade.
It is trying to persuade you to choose one topic over the other by providing facts and/or opinions to the reader.
The latest recorded population (2010) that I know of is <span>817,000 people.</span>
Answer: C) April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers (Millay, "Spring").
Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). From the given options, the excerpt that contains an example of personification is the corresponding to option C, because it says that April (that is a non human concept) comes like and idiot, babbling and strewing flowers (which are human characteristics).
Let's write complete sentences using the given words:
1. Van Gogh's paintings are almost as expensive as the work of Picasso.
2. We did not know the Recycled Orchestra until we watched the video online yesterday.
For the first sentence, we can see that the purpose is to compare the work of two painters, Van Gogh and Picasso. That is why we use the structure "as ... as". We must place the adjective "expensive" in the middle: "almost as expensive as".
For the second sentence, we do not need to add anything. However, because of the word "yesterday", we know the sentence refers to something that happened in the past. Thus, we use the Simple Past tense for the verbs: not know - did not know; watch - watched.
In conclusion, all we need to do is read the words to grasp what the purpose of each sentence is and then add or change whatever is necessary to form a complete sentence.
Learn more about the Simple Past tense here:
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