First of all, it's really sad that we're teaching poetry with questions like this, because this question really sucks the life and beauty out of reading poetry.

A is your best answer. Obviously knowing the literal meaning of a word is an essential first step to understanding what's happening in a poem. It's hard to analyze a poem if you don't know what the words mean to begin with. Once you know those meanings, you can then move on to thinking about metaphorical or figurative (i.e., non-literal) meanings of the same word.

B is partially right, but it's not the best answer. Certainly knowing the literal meaning of a word CAN help you determine the narrator, but not all poems have narrators, and sometimes the literal meaning won't help you figure out who the narrator is (especially if the narrator is deliberately left unclear).

C and D are wrong, and as a general rule in multiple-choice questions you should be very suspicious of answer-choices that use extreme language (like "useless") or that completely shut down a possibility entirely (which happens in choice C).

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My homework says use the word “depart” and write it with. “Hv plus -ing present participle verb” so how would I write the word d

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Answer:

The answer: "departing" (Example sentence: She is departing.)

Explanation:

Present participle- this is a form of a verb that uses ing. It is used to show the Present Continuous Tense. This tense is also known as the "Present Progressive Tense" and it means that an ongoing action is actually happening right now. It could also mean that the action can take place in the future.

For example:

I am eating my lunch.

She is cooking in the kitchen.

The present participle is preceded by an auxiliary verb (BE verb). In the example above, these are "am" and "is." These are helpful in forming the tenses.

In the sentence "She is departing." The auxiliary verb here "is" while the present participle verb is "departing."

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