Answer:
She is sad because the narrator's return means that the moment has come when she will need to leave the house where she lived for many years and has many memories.
Explanation:
"My Old Home," shows the moment when the narrator returns to his hometown, after 20 years, to help his family move to another home. The house where the narrator grew up is no longer of the same quality and needs to be abandoned. The narrator feels strange when reviewing the house, because he no longer has the emotional attachment to this place and does not feel that this is his house. He realizes that his mother is also a little sad, probably because she lived in this house for many years and leaving for another house, causes her to leave many precious memories behind.
Answer:
The figurative language used in the stanza is: alliteration.
Explanation:
Alliteration is a literary device that repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other in a structure. A simple example would be a well-known tongue twister: She sells seashells by the seashore (the /s/ sound is repeated).
In the stanza we are analyzing here, alliteration takes place when the author repeats the sound represented by the letter "h":
<em>In the silence </em><em>h</em><em>e </em><em>h</em><em>as </em><em>h</em><em>eard</em>
We have three words in a row beginning with the same consonant sound. Thus, we have an alliteration.
The stanza is an excerpt from the poem "The D.um.b Soldier," by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Answer:
Gerund Phrases as Objects
Just as nouns sometimes function as objects in a sentence, so can gerund phrases. Tim enjoys running with scissors. In this sentence, the gerund phrase running with scissors is the direct object of the verb enjoys.
Explanation:
B.) The Manuscript for His New Book
She was growing up in a different social and historical environment.
