Answer:
A
Explanation:
Before u write a research paper, u would usually make an outline first to make the writing of the paragraphs easier.
The answer is A, in any body paragraph, the main focus is getting your point across!!
The answer is allegory, since allegory is a rhetorical device that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures in a literary piece which create the meaning the author wants to portray. It is in a form of story or poem and the meaning could be political or moral, depending on the author's true meaning.
You didn't italize or mark the phrase, but I see one good candidate:
"The circus animal trainer" is in a way another name given to Mervin, a kind of "renaming" him: this is called an appositive phrase, so if this was the phrase appositive phrase is the answer! (also, I don't see the other phrases here).