What is the author's purpose in "A Performance to Remember"? to prove that Bonaly is braver and more determined compared to other skaters

to explain how Bonaly stands out from other figure skaters and why it matters

to entertain readers with a story about Bonaly's illegal skating trick

to help readers understand Bonaly's decision to become a figure skater

If you were writing a descriptive paragraph about your favorite food and used compound adjectives, what piece ofpunctuation could be effective for describing the food? semicolonhyphencolondash

9. types of literature that are told from a point of view include autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and journals.

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds. the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure. the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree. the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.