According to the passage, authors communicate through figurative speech. In the passage, they used similes. For example, "How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know hunger and wariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west, I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care." The passage also has personification. For example, "When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "it's God's mercy ye ever get out." In conclusion, authors communicate through figurative language according to this passage I NEED SOMEONE TO REWRITE THIS IS YOUR Own WORDS WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST

Some of the figurative speech used in the passage were similes and personifications. An example of a simile being used is, "How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know hunger and wariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west, I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care." An example of personification in the passage is, "When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "it's God's mercy ye ever get out." Thus, the readers can conclude that the author used figurative language to communicate.

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actually the answer would be c.) jane addams worked hard to improve the lives of less fortunate people.