Answer:
a) She sees Mrs. Flowers as larger than life.
Explanation:
Marguerite was the young girl in Maya Angelou's <em>I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings</em>, which is an autobiographical account of her life. Marguerite learns from the women in her life on how to fully accept her identity as a black woman while at the same time making a life of her own. One of these women is Mrs. Bertha Flowers.
The very first description of Mrs. Flowers says it all for us. Maya states Mrs. Flowers <em>"had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the Arkansas summer days it seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around, cooling her"</em>. As we read along, Maya again declared that <em>"
she was one of the few gentlewomen I have ever known, and has remained throughout my life the measure of what a human being can be"</em>. These statements show how our narrator is in owe of the woman.
Option A will only work if the sentence was "Each size of a pallet is approximately as large as the size of a refrigerator..."
Answer:
The answer is hyperbole.
Explanation:
It's a familiar question.
Also, Hyperbole is an exaggeration. The most blatant display of exaggeration here is the author's description of her laughter.
The following lines show this:
"...and it nearly killed her laughing"
"...she laughed herself lame--she did, indeed;"
She couldn't have possibly laughed herself lame of course but the hyperbole is used in showing how hard she must have laughed at what he was telling her.
