Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the end of the line.
Simile - "like a slackened drum"
Maybe even hyperbole, since it is an exaggeration.
Answer:
im pretty sure its without the dash so "sixteenth century"
Answer:
“As a joke he would sometimes ask her, “Proud of what? I haven’t done anything.” And she’d always say, “I’m just proud that you are my son.” She wasn’t perfect or anything. She had bad days when nothing he did could make her smile, especially after she got sick.” (Paragraph 37)
Explanation:
This explains how good of a relationship Luis and his mother used to have. Luis loves his mother and wants to be able to have that back again.
