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Explanation:
"Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop
In this poem, Bishop tells her own story. Her father died when she was a child and her mother never recovered from a nervous breakdown. Bishop had to live with older relatives for many many years.
In the poem, the grandma feels sadness because of the whole situation and because of the innocence of the child but she hides her sadness by laughing and talking to the child.
<em>"reading the jokes from the almanac, </em>
<em>laughing and talking to hide her tears."</em>
<em>-Sestina </em>
Why does the grandmother laugh and talk?
A. to entertain the almanac
B. to hide her tears
C. to entertain the child to make the time pass
The main idea of the passage is that recent research suggests that the language changes that occurred in the 15th and 16th centuries are owed to female writers.
<h3>What is a main idea?</h3>
A text may contain several ideas, but the main idea is the most important one. It is the idea that the author wants to convey, the one that he or she wants readers to understand.
After reading the passage, we can state that its main idea concerns the fact that recent researches show that language changes in the 15th and 16th centuries are owed to female writers, rather than to Shakespeare.
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The answer is True, here is an example Man= Men, woman=women
