Answer:original asnwers 
Explanation:
How does the poem reflect on productive work and everyday experiences? Does that emphasis on the white music/hit on dark sheets—on textbooks that are not made up regarding everyday, typographic texts to take see (Braille and scores) —cause us to read towards a new mode of hearing through the senses that speak? Those lines about the white music/hit on black canvas, combined with this poem’s recommendations to blindness and jazz, also tell up the picture of the blind, black jazz musician. Take the racialized imagery concerning the comments above on the politics of words, change, and privilege. What do you make of the imagination? Does it merely romanticize racialized experiences or does it increase this discourse of creativity in some manner?
 
        
             
        
        
        
Based on the given excerpt above, I can say that the what the carp represents here are DEATH and INNOCENCE. Death here refers to how the twenty-pound carp was being treated and innocence refers to the teachers and boarding students who tasted the carp. This excerpt is actually from Yun Wang's "The Carp" and this lyric poem reflects his bad experiences from his father, such as imprisonment and torture.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
This question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. Since the passage is the same, I will omit it:
The author's purpose is to do what?
1. explain the importance of Gothic architecture.
2. show how Venetian architecture is different from Gothic architecture.
3. describe Venetian architecture.
4. show the nature of Gothic architecture.
Answer:
The author's purpose is to:
4. show the nature of Gothic architecture.
Explanation:
The author states his purpose very clearly right at the beginning of the passage:
<u>"I will try to give the reader of this article some idea of the real history of Gothic architecture, not just of Venice, but of universal Gothic."</u>
The author will discuss the nature of Gothic architecture - what this style of architecture consists of. He makes it clear that he will not focus only on the Gothic of Venice. He will talk about it universally. He will indeed show how far Venetian architecture went in terms of this style, but this is not the main purpose of the study. Having that in mind, the best option is number 4:
4. show the nature of Gothic architecture.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Figurative language is similes, metaphors, and personification.