Anaya structures his excerpt as an analysis, while Nye structures her excerpt as an observation.
In Anaya's excerpt, he analyzes his friend's decision to take his native language out of his poetry. He gives the opinion that by eliminating his native language, he takes the soul out of his poetry. Nye's excerpt details what is being observed - the young man's words and the tree's branches.
Um I believe it’s the second one, the adventures just because of what and how he talks about it and how that’s incredible to talk about and what he did growing up
Verb means the action of the sentence, the action going on is 'ate', so that is the verb.
Simile. In the sentence "Shining like a cascade of brown waters" It compared her hair to water and used the word "like"