English, 05.10.2020 14:01 kaelycaetano66

Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill are characters in tall tales. They both have superhuman abilities and life stories told with exaggerated details. Paul Bunyan is described as the biggest and strongest lumberjack ever. In the same way, Pecos Bill is described as the best cowboy ever. Paul Bunyan supposedly created Lake Michigan by digging a water hole for his giant blue ox, while Pecos Bill supposedly dug the Rio Grande river to get water for his cattle. Characters like Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill are often used this way in tall tales. Their superhuman abilities provide funny reasons for the existence or appearance of well-known landforms and bodies of water. Which clues show that the text is organized using a compare-and-contrast structure?

words and phrases that describe a problem and how the problem is solved
words and phrases that show an order of events or list steps in a procedure
words and phrases that describe events and explain why they happen
words and phrases that signal similarities and differences between two things

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