Question

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: voice. 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? Implicit Interrogative Explicit Exclamatory

Answer 1

This is an explicit statement because the writer is directly making a connection and telling the reader information. He is directly stating that if the author can hear the voice of his character the reader will also be able to hear that voice.

If it were implicit it would be more veiled. An interrogative statement would be a question and an exclamatory statement would hold more urgency or excitement.