Read the first paragraph of "dog talk." listen. do you hear it? no matter where you are, if you stick your head out a window for a minute or two you'll probably hear a dog barking. what is it they're trying to say? does that racket actually mean something? why do dogs bark? which best explains how the passage supports the author's purpose? the purpose is to instruct; it provides supporting details about the abilities of dogs. the purpose is to entertain; it uses a humorous tone. the purpose is to inform; it asks a question that will be answered by the text. the purpose is to persuade; it is trying to convince you that you are the smartest animal of all.

I think the answer is The purpose is to inform, because they are obviously going to answer these questions.

The correct option is C). The author's purpose is to inform and the passage supports this purpose by asking a question that will be answered by the text in the following paragraphs.

Authors tend to use questions at the beginning of a text to engage readers and orient them about the information that the text will provide. The questions that the author presents in the first paragraph function as a starting point which allows the readers to know what the text is about. Moreover, they also work as 'trigger questions' that contribute to increase the reader's interest as they are questions that readers could have asked themselves at some point in their lives.   

bildungsroman is a german word for novel covering youth to adulthood which describes a coming-of-age story

the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.