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? (10 points)

implicit

interrogative

explicit

exclamatory