The answer is: it helps the reader understand how frightening the word is.
In the excerpt from the poem "Can't," by Edgar Albert Guest, the author makes reference to the terror of the word "can't." He describes it as the creator of weak effort, intense fear and unenthusiastic work. In the other lines, Guest claims that "can't is the worst word that's written or spoken," and depicts it as harmful for the soul, since it takes away people's courage, hopes and dreams.
Answer:
oxymoron
Explanation:
sad-joy is self-contradictory
A predicate adjective is the first adjective that follows a linking verb which connects two parts of a sentence (in this case, that verb is 'was'). So, the first adjective after was is 'sleek', so D is the correct answer.
Answer:
To put it in a simple way, you can think of a prose as a short story. It's not like a poem, where there's a structure to it. It's basically like an excerpt from a novel. You can think of it like a passage from a story. Examples of prose include newspaper articles, textbooks, and novels.
-Source (I took AP literature in my senior year and passed the AP test)
Remove the y and replace the y with an I