I believe that the options that best describe the qualities of the tragic heroine in these two passages are:
- They both show the main character sacrificing her life for her principles.
- They both show the main character experiencing a downfall and awaiting death.
- They both show moments in the main characters' experiences that evoke pity.
The tragic heroine trope portrays a female protagonist who ends up suffering terribly due to a fatal flaw in her character.
Nikki Giovanni is the author of the poem “My First Memory (of Librarians).”
Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943, Nikki Giovanni is the author of numerous collections of poetry and was the first poet awarded with the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award.
in the following excerpt from the poem:
"In the foyer up four steps a semicircular desk presided To the left side a card catalogue On the right newspapers draped over what looked like a quilt rack Magazines face out from the wall"
The reader is provided with:
A. implicit details about how the speaker feels about books.
This is better understood by reading the next lines of the poem, for example:
"The <u>welcoming smile of my librarian</u>
<u>The anticipation in my heart</u>
All those books—another world—just waiting
At my fingertips."
so the final answer to this question is :
A. implicit details about how the speaker feels about books.
