Answer:
A. Imaginative.
Explanation:
The poem "Words are Birds" by Francisco X. Alarcon is an imaginative but metaphorical work of poetry that compares words to birds. This simple yet profound poem uses imagery to paint a picture of words as birds that "arrive with books and spring". The ability of words to express different emotions and feelings makes it like a bird who is capable of limitless flight and can go anywhere in any direction.
Like birds, different types of words have different meanings, and thus convey different moods or themes. Some words are <em>"messengers"</em>, some <em>"exotic"</em>, some <em>"migrate"</em> while some <em>"die caged"</em>, all referring to the different aspects of one's words on a person. The whole mood of the poem seems to be the importance of choosing one's words carefully when one speaks. The overall tone of the poem is an imaginative one, for it paints a vivid image of words as birds and providing a better understanding of the importance of using words carefully.
Parents should try to help their children understand how to budget money but requiring their children to budget is not a good idea. People need to make mistakes in order to learn and grow. By making mistakes with their money, young people are being more independent and truly understanding the importance of budgeting from their own experience. If a parent holds their child's hand and hovers over them through learning life skills such as budgeting the child will not understand the importance to the same extent as someone who had to learn the hard way.
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The sentence that is correctly punctuated with commas, semi-colons or periods is sentences number 2: "the crab grass was flourishing, but the rest of the lawn, unfortunately, was dying."
The fist option is incorrect because there are no breaks at all in the sentence. The third asnwer is incorrect as well because there should have been a comma for a pause after mentioning that the grass was flourishing, but then adding a different element to the sentence such as the word "unfortunately", which indicates that something not expected happened to the grass. And finally the last asnwer is incorrect because the semi-colon is used in the wrong way.
Commas indicate small breaks, while periods indicate the end of a sentence. Semi-colons are used to separate different elements from the same idea in a sentence.
There are a few rules to using commas. One of those rules is not separating a subject from its verb. For example:
- "My mom, is a great dancer". INCORRECT
- "My mom is a great dancer". CORRECT
Another rule is that in a compound predicate that contains two verbs, you can't separate them with a comma. For example:
- "Agatha sings, and dances". INCORRECT
- "Agatha sings and dances". CORRECT.
