What technique does the author use in each excerpt to support her purpose?

A.) The first excerpt uses narrative techniques, and the
second excerpt uses quotations.

B.) The first excerpt uses facts and statistics, and the
second excerptis told as a story.

C.) The first excerpt relies on emotional words, and the
second excerpt uses long explanations.

D.) The first excerpt relies on strong words and the
second excerpt is told from a first-person point of
view.

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the correct answer is c. he speculates on what might happen at given points in the future in a world without people. alan h. weisman is an american author, professor, and journalist. authors organize their information with a purpose. they present their ideas in an organized way. this is called text structure. weisman uses text structure so as to improve overall comprehension and to prove his points.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,

by explaining that it took the same total time to travel by plane as it did by train