PLEASE HELP ASAP, WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Read the following excerpt from the article "Vision, Voice and the Power of Creation: An Author Speaks Out" by T. A. Barron, and answer the question that follows: Yet deeper than character, or even place, is another concept: volce. More than any other doorway to the imagination, I find this one the trickiest to open--and the hardest to close. For a
character's true voice is heard, its tones, cadences, and ideas are long remembered.
The ancients (people from ancient history) used anima, in fact, to describe breath as well as soul. That is wholly appropriate, for in the breath-the voice-of a character lies its essential spirit. If
the writer can truly hear the voice of a character, so will the reader.
The author writes, "If the writer can truly hear the voice of a character, so will the reader." What type of statement is this? (10 points)
Implicit
Interrogative
Explicit
Exclamatory

i’m pretty sure it is the second

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities.