Question

“Wildfires blackened nearly 8.8 million acres in the United States last year, highlighted the news by California's Camp Fire the deadliest in that state's history.” Which best describes the rhetorical use of this sentence in this passage?

Answer 1

Option A: The sentence opens passage with a powerful and dramatic fact that arrests the reader's attention

Step-by-step explanation:

Opening the passage with such a powerful description of a fact and personifying wildfires is dramatic which arrests the reader's attention leading him/her to read and know more about the facts.

Option B and D are totally incorrect as there is no mention of drones in this sentence.

Option C is also incorrect because the writer has not asked a rhetoric question from the reader. The writer has just described a fact.