I'm not sure about the Great Britain and Us conflict but I do know that the Mexican American war was the war for the possession of Texas? That may be a contrast you may include. I hope this helps.
Personally I believe the extended metaphor could be more effective since it provides more info and meaning to the poem itself
The excerpt contains the first sentences of the story. The story revolves around a woman who is informed about the tragic death of her husband. After learning the fact she acts differently that the reader is confused whether she is in grief or she feels joyful or in extreme explanation she started acting abnormally. Reviewers of the story debated about the unhappy marriage of Mrs. Mallard. The reader can find the implications later in the story. But because of the insecurities and worries felt towards Mrs. Mallard the reader can yield from the introduction that the correct answer is A.
Context clues are the clues that are given by the author to the readers to try and understand meaning of difficult words in context to the text.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Context clues are the hints which are given to the readers of the text by the author to try and understand the meaning of the difficult words keeping in mind the context of the text.
The clue may appear in the same line itself in which the word is. Just because the vocabulary that we gain comes from the reading that we do, we must take advantage of the context clues while we are reading to improve our vocabulary.
