He stretched out his hand, and in his palm was a pendant, a small aquamarine held in a cage of thin copper wire that was twisted to look like tiny leaves. Margie looked down at the exquisite little pendant and then at her waiting brother.

"I thought you could hang this on your chain," Rider said hopefully.

Margie took the pendant from him and let it dangle between them, catching the light.

"You really are just like Dad," she said smiling. Then she began to laugh happily and a little wildly until her eyes filled with tears.

Which sentence best shows the significance of Rider giving Margie the stone?

Yes or no? biology is the study of rocks and minerals.

"and these i address to all females that would be married, or are already so; not that i suppose their sex more faulty than the other, and most to want advice, for i assure [women], upon my honour, i believe the quite contrary; but the reason is, because i esteem them better disposed to receive and practice it, and therefore am willing to begin, where i may promise myself the best success." this statement from franklin's "rules and maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness" best demonstrates his use of criticism to argue his point his use of common sense to appeal to women his use of flattery to gain women's attention his use of facts to prove his point

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?