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Question 17:

A)

Question 18:

C)

Explanation:

For question 17:

The answer is A because a persuasive editorial usually contains reasoning, a clear statement, backup arguments to help the opinion/statement, and a response/covering of all possible counterarguments. Something you wouldn't find in a persuasive editorial would be a literal step-by-step sequence of events.

For question 18:

Figurative language is meant to be the opposite of literal, answer C is clearly figurative because the decision did not, in fact, resemble a storm in any place other than his mind.

c

explanation:

there is no passage.