The following structural elements best support the interpretation that the rain is a powerful force in the narrator's life:
C. The onomatopoeia and the couplet.
The couple is what closes the poem. It emphasizes rain’s presence on the poem as the rhyme of the couplet is the word ‘rain’.
Big scary creatures that kill/injure humans or other animals.
Answer:
2. Anna asked Jane who had given her the ring
3. My mother told me not to put my elbows on the table
4. She asked where the nearest post office was
5. He asked if I had ever played polo
6. She said she did not want to got to the party because she hated those people
7. She is very stubborn and therefore never listens to her mother's advice
8. He told me to sit down and tell him all I knew on the matter
9. She informed us that despite being unable to speak French, she was fluent in Spanish
10. She asked if I had seen the film yesterday
Explanation:
In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.
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Johnson uses sarcasm in this poem as he expresses the opposite of what he means. When he says "pile on the Black Man's Burden", and gives examples of how people can make black men more miserable than they already are ("his wail with laughter drown"), he is using sarcasm. He clearly does not want people to pile on this burden and make black men's lives harder, but he is saying that people should do it to show them how ridiculous it sounds and to point out that people are already doing that.
