Answer:
These supporting details reveal the speaker of the poem thinks friendship is more constant than love.
Explanation:
The excerpt we are studying here was taken from Emily Bronte's "Love and Friendship". In this poem, the speaker compares love to a wild-briar, while friendship is likened to a holly-tree. Love, like the rose-briar, is intense. Its scent fills the air, and it blooms beautifully, but as soon as winter comes, it perishes. Winter is a metaphor for difficulties. In the speaker's opinion, love does not survive hardship. On the other hand, like a holly-tree, friendship lasts. It may not be as attractive as a rose-briar, but it is constant, and does not die during winter. Friendship is, therefore, more constant than love, and that is the main idea of the poem.
The excerpt uses explicit details in the following way: it provides a <u>physical description</u> of Sarah Penn (small woman, short waist, gray hair, mild forehead, downward lines about her nose and mouth). All of it is explicit, since there is no room for interpretation, it is what it is. In other words, such details are concrete ones, since they are physical and nothing else.
As for implicit details, we can find them in a figure of speech (a <u>hypallage</u>, which uses an adjective or participle to describe a noun other than the person or thing it is in fact describing): we learn Sarah Penn's forehead was benevolent, that is, it showed her benevolence (an implicit detail, since it was Sarah, and not her forehead, that was benevolent). It is a trait which implicitly tells something about the character's personality. There is also the description of <u>meek downward lines</u> about her nose and mouth. Again, a hypallage which implicitly tells us something about the character: it is Sarah who is gentle and humble, and not the lines about her nose and mouth.
Answer:
1) wants to hide her true feelings about Robert.
Explanation:
<u>In the story, Amy Tan is very much in love with Robert. </u>That is why, when he and his family arrive for the Christmas dinner, she is trying hard to hide her feelings. She does this by ignoring Robert, and pretending she is better than him by acting as if he is "not worthy of existence".
This is the tactic of the opposite sometimes used by people when they like someone - they will act very disinterested in order to draw their attention and seem cool.
Answer: It’s specific to a single artistic work and doesn’t overlap with other similar works.
