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Annotating the text helps u analyze the most important points of the story. In addition, it also helps u remember things in the passage, and helps you visualize the story and the events that occur.
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:they slow down the events 
Explanation: because he keeps saying hesitant words and he seems very nervous and doesn’t want to say that her son is dead directly so instead he tried using other words 
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: hyperbole means exaggerating
example: in the poem daffodils poet Wordsworth said he saw  ten thousands of daffodils at a glance. so the thousands there is exaggerating as he couldn't count that many at a glance
personification means giving human abilities to something that are not human 
example: in the poem daffodils the poet said the daffodils were dancing plants cant dance its a human ability