Alisha began the introduction of her speech by saying: Have you ever been knocked down so hard by life that you didn’t feel you’d ever get back up? This happened to me many times, the first being when I tried to ride a bicycle when I was very young. Today I want to discuss with you some basic strategies for coping with life’s challenges. What kind of supporting material did Alisha use in her introduction?

the missing options are:

a. expert testimony

b. brief example

c. metaphor

d. hypothetical example

e. simile

The answer is b. brief example.

Explanation:

By talking about how she failed when she tried to ride a bike many years ago, Alisha is setting a brief example that helps to understand the idea of her speech, and also catches the attention of the audience because is something that a lot of people can relate to or associate with similar experiences.

thats exactly the right answer

a biography is a genre that mainly accounts somebody's life and that is written by somebody else. this genre supports sonia nazario's desire to share enrique's life because she can fully inform readers of his entire emotional journey.

in a biography, an author can share the readers almost everything about a person's life, or just one key event or personal aspect the author is interested in telling, like in this specific case in which sonia nazario is centered in enrique's emotional journey.