The correct answer is C. Whale
Explanation:
In writing, a description refers to the use of details to provide an account of the characteristics, features, parts, etc of an object, animal, situation or person. Because of this the object or subject being described can be determined by analyzing the details presented.In the case of the excerpt presented the author of it include details such as "A 40-ton creature, spinning around and around in the water" that suggest the animal described is big and marine, besides this the author adds "We could hear its fins slapping " which suggests the animal has big fins and adds "The brute exhaled" which is key to understand besides the features previously described this animal has a blowhole, which can only be found in cetaceans such as whales, which is also exclusively linked to "we could have counted the barnacles" and " its tail flashing" as whales are the only animals that besides being big, marine and having a blowhole, have barnacles and whose tail can be seen from boats when they go to the surface. Therefore, the animal the writer is describing is a whale.
