(Things Fall Apart) Read the excerpt below from Chapter 15, about the village of Abame after the massacre of the villagers, and
answer the question. Their clan is now completely empty. Even the sacred fish in their mysterious lake have fled and the lake has turned the color of blood.
Which sentence best explains the effect of using imagery in this passage?
A. The author uses metaphor to compare the lake and the village.
B. By describing the fish as having human characteristics, the author effectively uses personification to convey a sense of tragedy.
C. The author conveys a tragic tone with the images of fleeing fish and the blood-red lake.
D. The author uses direct description in addition to imagery to convey the tragedy that befell the village.
In <em>"Things Fall Apart"</em> the sentence that best explains the effect of using imagery in the passage is C. The author conveys a tragic tone with the images of fleeing fish and the blood-red lake.
By mentioning that even the sacred fish left the village and now the lake has turned red, the author clearly transmits the sense of tragedy left by the massacre: a lake, previously filled with sacred fish, now is tinted red from all the blood that poured into it from the villagers' death.
