In the past, the Kota spoke to the bones of their ancestors before making important decisions. They stored the bones in small baskets woven of rolls of barks or leaves. Sculpture such as this peace — which is called a Kota funerary figure — was tied to the top of the baskets. We are not certain what the figure meant to the Kota.

Which text feature would best help the reader understand this excerpt?

A. A sidebar about other African tribes.
B. A glossary to define the word “funerary”.
C. A graph showing the number of Kota sculptures.
D. A chapter heading to summarize the text.

D) A chapter heading to summarize the text

Explanation: Reading through this, I mentally added the said features. I found B useless because it already tells us what a funerary is. We don't hear about other tribes, and it would only detract from the main excerpt, so sidebar is out. We don't need to know the number of these sculptures, unless there was test question about it, which I doubt. Which leaves D) as the most likely answer out of all of them, because it makes the most sense to add. (Hope this helps)

D) a chapter heading to summarize the text

Explanation:

In the past, the Kota spoke to the bones of their ancestors before making important decisions. They stored the bones in small baskets woven of rolls of bark or leaves. Sculpture such as this piece -- which is called a Kota funerary figure -- was tied to the top of the baskets. We are not certain what the figure meant to the Kota.

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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.

explanation:

b)and

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