4. Students who read below grade level are twice as likely to drop out of high school than those who read at or above grade level.
In the first stanza, the speaker describes the trumpet player's face as possessing of "dark moons of weariness" that are linked to terrible memories of slavery. In this way, the speaker starts the poem with a sense of the fatigue that comes from great suffering.
Answer:
C: a reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood
Explanation:
Allusion is a literary device used to make a reference to a lake or someone known to the reader or the public that is consuming the established media. The allusion is placed to increase public understanding, making a clear and well-defined reference.
An example of this is: "When I left for work, the day was so dark, it seemed like a setting for a short story by Edgar Alan Poe."
