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“Under Farr’s tutelage, Nightingale compiled vast tables of statistics about how many people had died, where and why. Many of her findings shocked her.” proves that Florence Nightingale was a pioneer in the use of applied statistics
<u>Explanation</u>:
The above sentence proves a fact that Florence Nightingale was a pioneer in the use of applied statistics, because she had submitted a report after applying statistics to the current problem from which she gained an insight about how many people died, where and why. Every science and maths should be applied in real life and that is when creativity emerges. Creativity is nothing but cross applications of various yet similar problems.
First, you have to summarize what is happening in the story. A country mouse invites his city mouse friend to his fields for dinner. The city mouse does not enjoy his dinner, so he invites the country mouse to his house. They cannot eat because they are constantly in danger.
This question is missing the answer options. I have found the complete question online. It is the following:
Which poetic techniques are illustrated in the opening lines “I am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret”?
A. alliteration and metaphor
B. allusion and alliteration
C. apostrophe and simile
D. personification and enjambment
Answer:
The poetic techniques illustrated in the lines are:
D. personification and enjambment
Explanation:
Personification is a literary device in which human actions and characteristics are attributed to inanimate objects. We have personification in lines of the poem we are analyzing here, in "my skin has betrayed me." Of course, there is no way for someone's skin to "betray" anyone. Skin is not a sentient being. This is just a way the author has found of implying something else, with a deeper meaning.
Enjambment happens when a sentence does not end with the line, but keeps on going into the next one. That is what we have in "the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret," where one sentence is spread across three lines.
