Number 2 is showing compare and contrast because similar and different are syninyms to compare and cotrast. They are both asking for the same thing.
Answer:
Look for elements
Explanation:
Each genre has different elements that make it that genre, look for the elements of the story to find It's genre. (Fantasy= talking animals, Sci-Fi= flying cars, etc.)
Some synonyms of the word superfluous include: nonessentional, unneeded, unused, etc.
So, in this question I believe the best definition of the world superfluous would be C. Unneeded.
Hope this helped!
Answer:
If you are wondering what you have to do, just tell about your life (but you don't have to tell everything), and tell one time when your view of the world changed, like when everything seemed clearer for you or much more complicated.