A. none of the above
Setting involves things like where it’s happening and what time, so the audience and lighting are automatically out. Characters themselves aren’t part of the setting, though their descriptions like where they are or when their story is happening would be.
Answer:
My corona
The coronavirus looks like a dog toy
or a child’s Koosh ball
with its primary color
and fanciful shape.
How can something so whimsical
be so insidious?
It hasn’t infected me, mind you,
but it has changed me —
morphed into an
odd, complex chimera.
I’ve grown antennae that detect
a six foot field around me.
I’ve developed a fly’s eyes
to see danger on surfaces.
Like a squirrel, I bury food
in nooks and crannies
for a distant time.
I don a carapace
to venture out —
which I shed like a
snakeskin
on return to my door.
I am Lady Macbeth at the sink.
The future keeps receding.
Certainty has collapsed.
Sometimes I am like
the bear,
lumbering out of hibernation —
but mostly, I am like
the ground hog,
waiting
still waiting
to see her
shadow.
<u>sister's</u> refers to possessive singular;
whereas: <u>sisters'</u> refer to possessive plural (involving more than one sister).
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It has to do with gender. The father feels the son is a mini version of him so he would rather teach him stuff that he never got to learn stuff like that.
The answer is imagery. Gordimer uses descriptive words and phrases to plant an image in your head, and keeps the image rolling, all as if it were a television show.