Why was Persia ultimately unsuccessful in conquering Greece? Persia had fewer soldiers than Greece to fight its battles. Athens and Sparta were unbeatable when the two were united. Persia’s distance from Greece worked to its disadvantage. Persia’s leadership did not match the well-trained Greeks’ leadership.

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".

Ithink the answer is d.