Answer
Readers would most likely connect this excerpt to their lives by relating to wanting to make their parents proud.
<span>B) because it is a newspaper article
Quotation marks go around the title of a short work. Long works are underlined. For example, poems, short stories, and songs are all in quotation marks. Books and album titles are underlined. This source is an article. We can tell because the magazine is called the Hampton Gazette. There is also an edition number in the source citation - E8. These clues tell us it is an article. </span>
Answer and Explanation:
"Islands and Icebergs" by Ralph Semino Galan is a poem about reading a poem. <u>The speaker asks readers to imagine the paper as being the ocean and the words to be floating on the that ocean. That is a clue as to why he writes three lines per stanza. The length of the lines, along with their number, reminds us of the waves, even the foam, to floats up and down, back and forth, on the ocean. The author wrote three lines per stanza as a way to make the poem itself resemble an ocean, instead of simply asking as to imagine it.</u>
