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
Explicit
Exclamatory