Which statement below best defines and describes speculative fiction? * A: Speculative fiction is fiction that tries to accurately predict exactly what the future will be like.

B: Speculative fiction is fiction that warns readers about conditions of the present using worlds in the future.

C: Speculative fiction documents what life is like in the present.

D: Speculative fiction asks what the present would be like if some event had taken place in the past.

Anagnos: . . it will no doubt be difficult for you there, annie. but it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an irish battle. for independence. (he studies annie, humorously; she does not open her eyes.) this is my last time to counsel you, annie, and you do lack some – by some i mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. to others. and what had saved you on more than one occasion here at perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to. what do anagnos's words reveal about annie in this excerpt