<em>2. Which of the following words does the author use to describe the objects and people in this poem?</em>
<em>The correct answer is A. slumped, pinched, pouting.</em>
<em>“A doll slumped behind the door”: a doll suddenly fell
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<em>“the pinched armor of a vanished cricket”: a worn cricket armor, that was never used again. In here “vanished” represents the frustration of a sport never played again, represents the good time they lived before. </em>
<em>“before Liza appeared pouting from”: before Liza appeared showing an “I’m-about-to-cry” face.
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<em>3. The author uses a lot of words in this poem that have a negative connotation, yet she titles her poem "Daystar." Why? </em>
<em>The correct answer is C. Because despite the subject's grueling work and sacrifices, she is a "star," or heroine, in the eyes of the author. </em>
<em>Here the title Daystar refers to “A star during the day”, the heroine that saves the day of the human kind, by being a mother, by leaving all the things she really wanted behind. There is no time for thinking when duty calls for this heroin, this heroin that changes diapers. A heroin that changed her palace for “pinched armors” and “ and “floating maple leaves”.
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I think it is C, because if I'm right present principal is something that is happening presently? If so, C would be the answer because they "are doing" the exercises right now in context.
A first-person narrator is usually a character in the very story he is telling. For that reason, he can only tell the audience the things he knows, which can be limited or erroneous, or his assumptions, which can be quite biased. ... They lack impartiality since the story being told is influenced by their feelings
