Haikus are most likely to deal with nature.
Answer:
Esperanza feels guilty that she gets to enjoy a normal, healthy childhood but her
aunt never did.
Answer:
The figurative language used in the stanza is: alliteration.
Explanation:
Alliteration is a literary device that repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other in a structure. A simple example would be a well-known tongue twister: She sells seashells by the seashore (the /s/ sound is repeated).
In the stanza we are analyzing here, alliteration takes place when the author repeats the sound represented by the letter "h":
<em>In the silence </em><em>h</em><em>e </em><em>h</em><em>as </em><em>h</em><em>eard</em>
We have three words in a row beginning with the same consonant sound. Thus, we have an alliteration.
The stanza is an excerpt from the poem "The D.um.b Soldier," by Robert Louis Stevenson.
When High Horse goes to the girl in order to steal her, he finds out that her parents have tied her up using leather ropes so as to prevent anyone from kidnapping her. High Horse uses his knife to cut the ropes, but accidentally cuts the girl on her thigh, which causes her to scream in pain. This wakes up her parents, who get many people to help them chase down High Horse and his helper, Red Deer.
