Okay, an antecedent of a pronoun is always a noun, so immediately you can reject the words late and wandered as incorrect answers, because late is an adjective, and wandered is a verb. This leaves us with two nouns, guests and party. Obviously, the pronoun several refers to the noun guests, so the correct answer is guests - that is the antecedent that corresponds with the pronoun. Several guests, not several parties.
The tone is reflective; words such as before and used establish this because they show that Anne is thinking meaningfully about the past.
Penelope, the weaver, is a literary reference to fidelity.
While Odysseus is absent, Penelope is pretended by several men, who settle in the palace and nastily eat her banquets, while waiting for the queen to choose one of them. To maintain her fidelity, Penelope tells the suitors that she will accept a new husband when she finishes weaving a shroud for King Laertes, on whom she was working. To prolong this task as long as possible, Penelope undoes at night what she weaves during the day, however, a woman betrays her an tell the other men, so she is forced to finish the job. Odysseus returns just in time, killing the suitors .
The structural element that is used in the excerpt by Anaya but not in the excerpt by Nye is logos, as stated in option D and further explained below.
<h3>What is logos?</h3>
Logos, also known as logical appeal or appeal to logic, is a type of rhetorical device. It is the use of logic and reasoning to convince one's audience of something. That means the writer or speaker will provide arguments in a logical order so that he or she can lead the audience to a certain conclusion.
After reading the excerpts, we can see that Anaya uses logos, but Nye does not use that structural element. With that in mind, we can choose option D as the correct answer.
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