Answer:
Oates goes from claiming at the beginning that she considers herself small and insignificant compared to Nature, to finally describing how she smashes black ants with her forefinger, meaning she does have some kind of power over nature.
Explanation:
There´s irony on the fact that she first expresses aversion for the romanticization of nature in literature, but finally finds some kind of writing inspiration in damaging those ants as an expression of nature.
I was is the more proper way of saying you were doing something for example “I was eating” not “I were eating”
I always like to think of figurative meaning as deeper meaning: what is the narrator really trying to get the reader to understand? Once you have your answer, think about the key words in that excerpt that helped you uncover the figurative meaning-- these will always be figurative devices, so you're already half way through this question. (pro tip: stick to the text to uncover it-- don't stray to far from the information you are being provided)
Lastly, you're being asked to identify literary devices here, do you notice any symbols? Something that usually stands for something else that might relate to that deeper/figurative meaning? Also, think about how the way in which the author phrased these symbols impacted the overall deeper meaning.
I THINK ITS C. NOT SURE. hope this helped!
The correct answer is <u>B )Miep Gies’ determination to pick up all of Anne’s diary pages shows how dedicated to the Frank family she was.</u>
Miep was a good friend of the Frank family who helped hide them during World War II. After the disaster of the war and the whole family having been taken away to Auschwitz, Miep was determined to keep the memory of the family by saving every memento she could find about them and their life as described through Anne's writings. She cherished the opportunity she had to meet the Frank family in the first place and considered it important to save everything that could be saved related to this family.
This is a viewpoint that a prepared speaker could point out so as to show the significance of this character for the family and the extente of her devotion to them.
