Question

Read the lines from "Harlem." Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Read the lines from "The Weary Blues." He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway. Which best describes the relationship between these lines

Answer 1

The correct answer is D) The lines from "Harlem" and the lines from "The Weary Blues" both provide details using the sense of sight.

The other options of the question were A) The lines from "Harlem" provide sensory details, and the lines from "The Weary Blues" do not. B) The lines from "Harlem" and the lines from "The Weary Blues" both provide details through personification. C) The lines from "Harlem" provide details using the sense of sight, and the lines from "The Weary Blues" provide details using the sense of touch.

The statement that best describes the relationship between these lines is

the lines from "Harlem" and the lines from "The Weary Blues" both provide details using the sense of sight.

When an author uses sensory elements, it wants the reader to "feel, sense, see, or taste" what the author is writing. This is a good way to describe some action, place, moment or situation so the reader can "transport" to that moment of the story. That is the case of the lines of "Harlem" and "The Weary Blues."