The answer is A, I hope this helps!
<span>In Claude McKay's poem Tropics of New York, the first thing used to provide the poem's initial imagery is d. fruit. Imagery is visually descriptive language that you can observe in literature. In order to recognize it in this poem, it is just enough to read the first stanza:
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,
As you can see, there is a vivid imagery that is employed by describing fruits.<span>
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<span>After the war, the Nigerian government switched the currency from Biafran money to pounds.
This fact is important to understanding the piece because it helps the reader know the reason for the man to have to stand in line just to turn his money in for a type of money that he doesn't understand at all (which is shown by the fact they call it 'egg rashers'). </span>