The main idea of a text is the point it is conveying to the reader. It can also be called the purpose for writing the text.
Read the excerpt from The Building of Manhattan.
The BOOM is usually 70 to 90 feet long and is hinged to the mast at its base, so that both move together when the derrick swings to a new direction.
Which statement best explains how an illustration would make this text easier to understand?
It would help the reader visualize the complex parts described in the text.
I'm like so sorry that I'm a teacher on this website but please stop cheating.
In my opinion, the whole poem is quite ironic - although she is mentioning the exultation and the royal color of death, the poem itself begins with the narrator saying that she cannot breathe - that she doesn't want to die.
So, I would say that the ironic parts are:
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, -
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!
