They are comparing a poem to a "flowering twig of thought" without using like or as. Thus, it is a <em>metaphor.</em>
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The answer would be <span>A. writing that uses humor to poke fun at human weaknesses</span>
The correct answer is sentence (5).
A sentence fragment means that it is only a part of a sentence; it is not complete. Given that it is incomplete, the fragment, aka subordinate/dependent sentence, has to be part of a larger, independent sentence, in order to make any sense. So if you combined sentence (5) with another one, it wouldn't be a fragment anymore.
The event that described in chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter occurs after the women of the crowd are introduced was that "The women discuss Hester's sentence." <span>Onlookers reacted to Hester's embroidered letter.</span>