Myers was raised with a love of reading by his foster mother, Florence Dean, an English teacher who was also the first wife of his father. ... <u><em>Myers focused on stories for younger readers, in large part because they were the type of books that got him through the most difficult times in his life.</em></u>
Trochees are less common than other types of metrical feet in poetry, but they have a unique sound and purpose when they are featured in poems. Trochees can be used to great effect for the following reasons: Trochaic lines flow easily from one to the next. Trochaic meter ends on an unstressed syllable
In The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina (which are all rivers in Russia), the purpose of mythology that the story fulfills is explanation of natural phenomena. The creation of these rivers is what makes the plot of the story.
