PLZZZ ANSWER QUICK !! Read the excerpt from "Homesick."
I was looking up at a white cloud skittering across the sky when all at once someone tramped down hard on my right foot. Ian Forbes
Snarling bulldog face.
What does the figurative language in the excerpt tell readers about lan Forbes?
Olan is very unattractive
O He feels threatened by the narrator.
O lan is seeking attention.
O He wants to scare the narrator.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

i think it may be b, i'm not exactly too sure on this. but b seems to make more sense.