So what do the bagel data have to say? in recent years, there have been two noteworthy trends in the overall payment rate. the first was a long, slow decline that began in 1992. by the summer of 2001, the overall rate had slipped to about 87 percent. but immediately after september 11 of that year the rate spiked a full 2 percent and hasn’t slipped much since. (if a 2 percent gain in payment doesn’t sound like much, think of it this way: the nonpayment rate fell from 13 to 11 percent, which amounts to a 15 percent decline in theft.) because many of feldman’s customers are affiliated with national security, there may have been a patriotic element to the 9/11 effect. or it may have represented a more general surge in empathy. the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument?

the answer is b to the question

figurative language is a resource that fiction writers use to make better descriptions of what they want to write about or express. they can improve their stories, as they can elaborate more vivid and colorful sentences. this way, the reader will be able to have more detailed images in his/her mind.

places, objects, people and even feelings or emotions can be described with a lot of detail to metaphors, similes and personifications. making different kinds of comparisons to make a description more specific, as well as assigning human qualities to non-human objects (and vice-versa) can be very useful for science fiction writers.  

on the other hand, alliterations allow writers to elaborate more entertaining and creative sentences. it consists in using a sequence of words that start with the same consonant letter. they can be used to emphasize something important the writer wants to express, or just as a fun literary device.