Answer: B) replace the unfamiliar word with a synonym to see if the sentence makes sense.
Explanation: Context clues are hints that an author gives to help the reader understand a difficult or unusual word within a sentence or paragraph. When we are reading and we find an unfamiliar word, we should use the context clues to determine its meaning, and after that, in order to verify if we really know the meaning, we should replace the unfamiliar word with a synonym to see if the sentence makes sense.
<h2><em>Metaphor, personification.
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</em></h2><h2><em>The poem cherry tree is about the cherry tree which the poet wants to plant. He sow the seeds and seeds grow into a sapling and then in to a plant. It took eight years for the plant to produce cherry after so much struggle like extreme cold conditions, goat eating leaves of the tree, fungus of the plant etc.,
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</em></h2><h2><em>Metaphor is a figure of speech in which the poet compares two things but cannot be taken literally. Example:’ Ripened and jewelled in the sun’ he tells that the berry is like a jewel in the sunlight which shows us that he admires the fruit but not ‘it looks like a jewel’.
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</em></h2><h2><em>Personification means the author's way of behaviour the plant or any non living thing in comparison with a human being. Example: The flower danced in the cool breeze. In this poem it says about the cherry tree. ‘Its arms in a fresh fierce lust’.
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Expository writing does not tell a story •Expository writing does not persuade a reader but only gives facts and reasons •Expository writing can also give the steps of a process
