The passage from "The Shot," by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Answer: I believe it may be D. A hope to inspire. I apologize if I am wrong.
The answer is tone.
Words the author uses that are not offical words will describe their tone.
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Answer:
D. It depicts the Vietnam War as a stone that heavily weighs on the speaker's conscience.
Explanation:
According to the lines from the poem Facing It by Yusef Komunyaka, the author talks about trauma and how when he turns one way the "stone let's him go" and if he turns the other way, he's back in Vietnam. This suggests that the poet is talking about a war veteran from the Vietnam war.
The sentence that best describes one effect of the poet's use of figurative language in the excerpt is option D which depicts the Vietnam War as a stone that heavily weighs on the speaker's conscience.
I'm not 100 percent sure, but I'm pretty sure it's the first one about initially not having an interest in marriage