Answer: C. As he sat on the curb in front of the school, Tico twirled a stick in his hand. Aunt Maricel would be there soon. Tico felt nervous because he knew she would ask about his trumpet, and he would have to explain everything.
Explanation:
The version that best uses a variety of sentence structures to enhance the flow and writing style of a story is option is C "As he sat on the curb in front of the school, Tico twirled a stick in his hand. Aunt Maricel would be there soon. Tico felt nervous
because he knew she would ask about his trumpet, and he would have to explain everything".
This is the right answer because all the other options are not structured properly. Option C enhances the flow as the option is structured properly as the words also flow along well.
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Answer: A) Personification</h3>
Explanation:
The winter weather isn't a person, but the author is making it seem like the cold wind is from Jack Frost's breath. So the author is making the wind or just cold weather in general seem like a person of sorts, or part of a person's traits. Personification is the act of turning any inanimate object or non-human thing to have human traits. Hence the "person" in "personification".
Other examples of personification are sentences like:
- The tree danced in the wind
- The river swallowed more ground as the water rose more rapidly
- Time flies when you're having fun
- The ocean lashed angrily at the beach.
I'm sure you can probably come up with more creative examples or look them up elsewhere to get a better grasp on how personification works.
I would say that the answer is 'the poet uses dashes to slow readers down as they read through the poem', but that's kind of debatable. It doesn't fit any of the other answers, though.
