D. To provide the reader with concrete details or information.
Allusion is a technique where expressions that have an indirect or passing reference is used to provide more meaning. The ideas are called to mind without being explicit. Authors use allusions to prompt deeper understanding by relating ideas.
The author explicitly says that spirit can be found in the voice of a character.
Explicitly means directly - so it means that the author didn't hide the fact that he knew what could be found in the voice.
Here is what he says:
<em>That is wholly appropriate, for in the breath—the voice—of a character lies its essential spirit.</em>
So the correct answer is definitely spirit.
Answer:
She did not go with her friends to present the petition (option C).
Explanation:
After reading the excerpt on 'My Story', from the first sentence: I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city officials, because I didn’t feel anything could be accomplished.
We would discover she didn't go with her friends to present the petition.
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