Invade: Enter a place, situation, or sphere of activity) in large numbers, especially with intrusive effects... Synonyms for invade: occupy & takeover
Explore: travel through and unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.... Synonyms for explore: Tour & search
The subject of the poem is life. When you look at it in depth, its entirety is a metaphor for the passing of life. Nature's first green is gold (the birth of a child, or new life), her hardest hue to hold (innocence passes fast with life, no matter how hard we try to hold on to it). Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour (again with the quick passing of time for life.) The leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief (death at the end of someone's life and the mourning that comes with it, if only a second to the hour of life), so dawn goes down to day (mourning is over, and the days continue after that someone passes and everyone has mourned). Nothing gold can stay (life is valuable, like gold, and vanishes much in the same way).
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking wolves are attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear and the boy again calls for help, the villagers believe that it is another false alarm and the sheep are eaten by the wolf.
For question excerpt number 1, <span>Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate’s defeat explains how Garcia’s word choice identifies her voice in the excerpt.
Same as excerpt number 2 in which the statement "</span>Soto relates a story from his life to make a point about what it means to live in a multicultural society" explains how Soto's established his voice in the passage.
Both statement explains how the structures of the excerpts are similar because "Each presents factual evidence to appeal to the reader’s logic".
