Me will give brainliest : ) "but at last," resumed the boy, "there came a time when the dog couldn't save the kid. mount vesuvius erupted. all the sky was pitch-dark, as black as midnight, and pompeii was buried under lava and ashes." which best distinguishes fact from fiction in the passage? a. the boy telling his dog a story is a fact; the story about pompeii being buried under ash is fictional. b. pompeii is a fact, because it was a real city; the story about it being buried under ash is fictional. c. the story about the kid and dog dying in the volcano eruption is fact; mount vesuvius is a fictional place. d. the volcanic eruption at mount vesuvius is a fact; the boy telling his dog a story is fictional. which example is a good point of comparison for a compare and contrast essay? a. the figurative language in two poems b. the tone in one poem and the figurative language of another c. the setting of one poem and the plot of another poem d. the speaker in one poem and the similes in another poem