<span>A. Adaptation
Adaptation of a film refers to referencing a section of or a whole of a book.</span>
<span>d.Hal Holbrook
</span>a.Height of fashion
<span>a.W.S. Gilbert
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"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
Answer:
D. That the reader has the background knowledge to understand the allusion
Explanation:
If there is an allusion to Venus the goddess of beauty, the counterpart of Aphrodite(Greek Mythology), someone who does not have any background knowledge about Roman mythology or mythology in general would assume the writer is referring to Venus, the planet rather than the goddess.
In order to understand an allusion as used by a writer, the reader must have adequate knowledge as this was expected of the reader by the writer.
