A. A has both genders of the students and since we don’t know the amount of students of either gender, this serves as an indication that not all the students are of one gender or another.
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Answer: The dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
Explanation: This is a form of personification, because the sentence states that the tropical forest is pressing a thick warm blackness on the yacht. Personification is giving human like qualities to inanimate objects.