The author's purpose in the excerpt above is to give informative text
- To inform the reader about the products and foods that a region offers
<h3>What is
informative text ?</h3>
An informative text is one that provides knowledge on a specific subject. The author writes such a text with the intent of educating the audience about certain things which they may not have been previously aware of.
In the text above, the author simply informs the reader of certain foods that are available in a particular province. He does not attempt to convince the readers of why they should eat such foods.
He simply tells them which food is abundant and the types of foods that can be found in the province.
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“Concrete Mixers” by Patricia Hubbell compares concrete mixers to elephants to show humans have created relationships with their machines in much the same way as with animals under their care. The poet shows how the drivers of the concrete mixers wash and tend to their mixers just as the mahout take care of their elephants. This comparison is set up at the beginning of the poem with this simile: “Like elephant tenders they hose them down.” To continue this relationship, the poet describes the concrete drivers as “mahouts”, the name for people who take care of elephants in other countries. The poem also describes how the concrete mixers “stand in muck”, meaning that these machines are in muddy environments similar to the environments of elephants who stand in mud or muck.In the end the poet describes how the concrete mixers are like elephants working to do humans’ work by lifting, moving and helping to create new structures in a city. The poet uses several similes to describe concrete mixers as if they were alive: “Concrete mixers/Move like elephants/Bellow like elephants/Spray like elephants” She further strengthens the effect by writing that they “…are urban elephants/Their trunks are raising a city.” This metaphor means that just as elephants work for humans in
Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
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um if you mean like rephrasing it I use ( paraphrasing tool quill bot) I read over it, it makes sense. hope I helped!!
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I believe it is D, a split infinitive
