What technique does the author use in each excerpt to support her purpose?
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
recently interviewed 404 children who had arrived in the
United States from Honduras, EI Salvador, Guatemala
and Mexico; 58 percent said their primary reason for
leaving was violence. (A similar survey in 2006, of
Central American children coming into Mexico, found
that only 13 percent were fleeing violence.) They aren't
just going to the United States: Less conflicted countries
in Central America had a 712 percent increase in asylum
O The first excerpt uses narative techniques, and the
O The first excerpt uses facts and statistics, and the
OThe first excerpt relies on emotional words, and the
O The first excerpt relies on strong words, and the
second excerpt uses quotations.
second excerpt is told as a story.
second excerpt uses long explanations.
second excerpt is told from a first-person point of
claims between 2008 and 2013.
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Read the excerpt from Enrigue's Journey.
Enrique allows himself to doze only on trains farther
north, where the gangsters no longer control the tops of
the trains. There, he jams his body into the crevice on
top of a hopper, next to the trapdoors used to fill the car.
Or he waits until the train rounds a curve. aivina him a