Emily have 36 flowers she give ones flower to friend

Okey so as it says here in the problem Emily had 36 flowers in total. So we know that, then she gives one flower to a friend. Now in total of flowers she has would be 35 because 36-1= 35 so this is how we would find the total

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".