Unfortunately I don't know what poem you're talking about but I can provide some insight on the word luminous! Luminous is typically applied to people or characters to express a bright and happy personality. So without reading the poem I can tell you the author most likely means the turtle is an optimistic, joyful guy!
Describe the four main motives of the new imperialists. Various motives prompt empires to seek to expand their rule over other countries or territories. These include economic, exploratory, ethnocentric, political, and religious motives.
The characters in Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 respond to their media-centered society in a variety of ways. Some perpetually question the norms, while others seem to accept their world as it is.
Mildred is the wife of Montag, a fireman in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. She personifies what is expected of the citizenry.
The appositive is a renaming of a noun, something that can be skipped without changing the grammatically and meaning of the sentence.
Here the appositive is "Dr. Walters" - it can be skipped:
My dentist was one of the speakers at Career Day
and it renames "My dentist" - answer B
Answer: C.
Explanation: The word decided seems to be swelled correct since decided is in the past tense, so the word swelled has to, too.