Based on this excerpt, what can readers infer about the stories the fishermen were told about the barbarians?

The stories are completely true.

The stories lack detail.

The stories are completely false.

The stories are exaggerations.

The stories are exaggerations.

Excerpt:

Read the excerpt from Heart of a Samurai and then answer the question.

Eleven eyes. When at last he dared to look up, what he noticed was their eyes. Each pair a different color: green as a stormy sea, blue as the sky, black as night, or brown as his own. One man had only one eye, and that one as gray as a cloudy day. The other eye was covered with a patch.

There did not seem to be any tails, horns, or fangs among them. There were some alarmingly hairy faces and plenty of big noses, though!

Six big noses, in fact: one long and hooked, two long and straight, one squashed and wide, one turned up at the end, and another as big and red as a radish.

Explanation:

Exaggeration is a term for a figure of speech. It creates a worse, or better, image or situation than it really is and used to highlight points and add emphasis to a feeling, an idea, an action, or a feature. When exaggeration is being used in writing, it allows one to describe something in a heightened way to make it more remarkable.

From the excerpt, we can see that the way the barbarians were being described to the fishermen was exaggerated. One example is:  There were some alarmingly hairy faces and plenty of big noses, though!

Therefore, readers can infer that the stories are exaggerations.

"fire and ice" is one of robert frost's most popular poems. it was published in december 1920 in harper's magazine and in 1923 in his pulitzer prize−winning book new hampshire. it discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate.

c. the power of desire is greater than the power of hate.