Stephanie is on vacation in australia and wants to see eucalyptus trees, gray kangaroos, emus, and red dragons. she should visit the ecosystem in northwestern australia. a. desert b. grassland c. marine d. rainforest

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".