In paragraph 2 ("Three ... thrushes"), the author includes the detail "more than a quarter of the total bird population of the continent" mainly to

edmund spenser and john bunyan is the answer. hope i !

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.

i would have to say "a" or "d".

im also in k12 very intesting -w-