The strategy that will help your revise your choice of words to achieve your purpose is:
D. circling dull words
Circling dull words can help one identify the words that are not having a strong impact on the message that the writer is aiming to transmit. Exchanging those dull words with stronger words can help set the tone in order to ensure that the message is coming across as intended.
Onomatopoeia?
(words that describe the sound)
C. It contributes to the emotion of safety and comfort.
The poem is an offering of safety and comfort. The poem repeats "I love you" throughout as part of his message to his audience. The poem is meant to be a place where the audience can find safety and comfort. In the stanza with the word hogan, he tells the reader to knock on the door and he will "make you feel safe." Even though the speaker addresses the emotions of the reader as possible feeling tired, overwhelmed, lost, directionless, cold and lonely, the speaker is offering safety and comfort to help the reader because of his love for the reader.
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