The answer is <u>B. Showing that a portion of quote has been removed.</u>
This is used to take out parts of quotes that don't help in what you are trying to use the quote for. This shortens the amounts of words/lines taken up and it gets straight to the point of what is being said (most of the time).
Historians have not been able to trace Hannibal's <span>itinerary </span>over the Alps; the bones of the elephants that died on the route have not been found.
