Answer:
Poet is using personification
Explanation:
<em>Frozen branches—heavy with ice arms— Couldn't perform their dance</em>
Trees and brances can't dance, but the poet is giving them human possibilities.
Personification is a way of giving human feelings to objects, plants, animals, and abstract concepts. By reviving things, phenomena, in general, something inanimate, they create images that have a strong effect on the reader.
fails to make a clear claim
Tan uses the word “impeccable” to describe her mother's English.
Answer: D
Explanation
In the story, Tan describes her mother when she shouts a stockbroker's boss using in impeccable English.
This means that even though Tan's mother is not fluent in her English, he still believes that her English is still well enough.
Tan felt the band when he described his mother's English as broken.
This always bothered him and thought it was destroyed and was to be implemented since it lacked sound and wholeness.
Therefore this is the reason why he described it as impeccable.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
Her death caused them to start taking hostages.
You should use the definition or explanation clues in understanding the meaning of the word or phrases that are unfamiliar. This kind of context clue lets you explain about or give the explanation of the word or phrases right after it is used.
