The correct answer among the choices provided is the second option. Iambic pentameter was the meter pattern used in "On Imagination". Aside from iambic pentameter, Phyllis Wheatley also uses couplet and heroic form in her poems. Wheatley was an eighteenth-century black slave.
The language system is semantics. "Coke" v.s "Sprite." are two different words, so we are focusing on a word. When Anna paused, she was confused because to Melinda, A Coke means a Sprite in her vocabulary. She wanted to confirm the same meaning. Semantics involves a changing meaning depending on the person. She is visiting from Alabama, so the meanings may have chosen just like dialects. Thus, it cannot be phonology/morphology, syntax, or pragmatics.
The statement that best describes the use of sound devices in the lines is the one that reads as follows: "Excerpt 1 contains alliteration, and excerpt 2 contains onomatopeia".
Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. In the first example, the sound /t/ is repeated in "turbulency tells". On the other hand, onomatopeia is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. In the second example, there are "moaning" and "groaning", both verbs relating to sounds and being formed from the sound they are associated with.
Can you provide the passages? I can help you compare! It's quite easy to compare, make sure you summarize both and say how they are the same. Make sure to also talk about how they are different.
These are the correct options, in my opinion. A. <span>The ending is inspiring in contrast to the beginning. The beginning is calm and toned down. The speaker is sorry to hear the young Negro underrate his own racial identity, but there is no solution yet. On the other hand, the conclusion is exulted, lively, and defiant. It offers an inspiring solution, calling upon Negro artists to finally climb that mountain and get free of their inherent prejudices about themselves. D. </span><span>The ending revisits a quote that was used in the beginning. This quote is from the young Negro poet: </span><span>"I want to be a poet--not a Negro poet," and it represents the wish of the middle-class Negroes to blend into American standardized society, denying their own identity.</span>
