Which of the following passages from the text best illustrates phillip’s determination?
a. wondering what had caused the birds to attack me, i felt around in the sand.
b. i realized then why he had used our rope sparingly; why he had made my guideline down to east beach from vines instead of rope.
c. there was no day or night that passed when i didn’t listen for sounds from the sky.
d. i had two more matches left, and for a moment, i didn’t know whether to use them or run back up the hill to the campfire.

C.There was no day or night that passed when I didn’t listen for sounds from the sky.

Explanation:

Which of the following passages from the text best illustrates Phillip’s determination?

A.Wondering what had caused the birds to attack me, I felt around in the sand.

B.I realized then why he had used our rope sparingly; why he had made my guideline down to east beach from vines instead of rope.

C.There was no day or night that passed when I didn’t listen for sounds from the sky.

D.I had two more matches left, and for a moment, I didn’t know whether to use them or run back up the hill to the campfire.

I subscribe to C because it depicts determination

it can't  be D becuase D looks more of uncertainty or confusion

A also looks like the speaker is imagination

B looks like something has just dawned on him , probably he just realized a specific truth.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

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