Common lit: reports from the ruins of the san francisco earthquake of 1906 commonlit answers

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)

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figurative language is a resource that fiction writers use to make better descriptions of what they want to write about or express. they can improve their stories, as they can elaborate more vivid and colorful sentences. this way, the reader will be able to have more detailed images in his/her mind.

places, objects, people and even feelings or emotions can be described with a lot of detail to metaphors, similes and personifications. making different kinds of comparisons to make a description more specific, as well as assigning human qualities to non-human objects (and vice-versa) can be very useful for science fiction writers.  

on the other hand, alliterations allow writers to elaborate more entertaining and creative sentences. it consists in using a sequence of words that start with the same consonant letter. they can be used to emphasize something important the writer wants to express, or just as a fun literary device.

i dont know if your mis-read or whatever but that says 30 points also. its not so very surprising knowing that the words he spoke was english, the aspect of his "language" i'd say is pretty rare and is very unique to pronounce.