"Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop
In this poem, Bishop tells her own story. Her father died when she was a child and her mother never recovered from a nervous breakdown. Bishop had to live with older relatives for many many years.
In the poem, the grandma feels sadness because of the whole situation and because of the innocence of the child but she hides her sadness by laughing and talking to the child.
<em>"reading the jokes from the almanac, </em>
<em>laughing and talking to hide her tears."</em>
<em>-Sestina </em>
Why does the grandmother laugh and talk?
A. to entertain the almanac
B. to hide her tears
C. to entertain the child to make the time pass
In the poem "Afterwards," Hardy uses many euphemisms to refer to death. He never actually says the words die, dead, or death.
Instead, he says things like: "If I pass during..." Here, the term "pass" is replacing the word "die." He also uses the very wordy "When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay" (which basically means "When the present is behind me" or "When I am part of the past").
The effect of these euphemisms is to have a quiet, calming effect on the reader. If he constantly used the words "die" and "death" throughout the poem, the dreamlike quality of the poem would be altered.
Instead, using terms like "afterward" and all the other euphemisms allows Hardy to discuss death without actually discussing it. In this way, he wonders what the rest of the world will do "after."
Correct answer choice is :
<h2>B) Feeding habits and migration.</h2><h2 /><h2>Explanation:</h2><h2 />
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most intimately associated to the terns and only distantly linked to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. The Canada fool is a large wild goose class with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. Native to northern and temperate areas of North America, its migration seldom reaches northern Europe.
Well I would know that if I saw the paragraph but highlight the ones that most action she promotes in and 8-10 put the main idea by each paragraph.
