This question is missing the excerpt. I will not add it here because it is quite long, but the complete question can be easily found online. The excerpt belong to "The Travels of Marco Polo".
Answer:
The option that indicates that the author's purpose is to inform readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar is:
A. The author shares facts and specific details about the difficulty of sailing in the region.
Explanation:
Marco Polo was a Venetian adventurer who lived from 1254 to 1324. "The Travels of Marco Polo" is a book based on his trips and discoveries and written by Rusticiano de Pisa, who met Polo and had the chance to hear the adventurer himself tell the stories.
<u>In the excerpt that can be found online, the author is informing readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar. The passage is written as it it were Polo himself describing the difficult travel conditions in the region. He provides readers with facts about the currents that prevent ships from going a certain direction. According to him, the currents are always southward. A ship may take 20 days to go a certain way, but three months to return precisely because of the currents.</u>
Answer:
The correct option is identical.
Explanation:
A modifier refers to a word, phrase, or clause which can work either as an adjective or as an adverb whose main function is to provide a description. These modifiers have comparative and superlative forms that are used to compare two things.
Such comparison is commonly defined as the act of evaluating two or more things (person, place, thing or even an idea) in order to determine if such ideas are similar or different.
Bearing in mind the described above, it could be said that<em> the word </em><em>identical </em><em>could be used as a modifier to make a comparison.</em>
Answer:
Since a narrative essay tells a story about the writer’s life, it is most effective to tell the story from the writer’s point of view.
Explanation:
Because him writing it this way shows how nervous he his and his inner thoughts
The answer is 3, using words in a certain way to persuade the reader.
A) first person
First person uses I, me, my
He is telling the story from his point of view so it would be first person!
