<span>With the Republican cause all but lost, its leaders attempted to negotiate a peace, but Franco refused. On March 28, 1939, the victorious Nationalists entered Madrid in triumph, and the Spanish Civil War came to an end. Up to a million lives were lost in the conflict, the most devastating in Spanish history.</span>
The answer is: [C]: "the poet's sorrow and despair" .
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Refer to the entire poem:
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"The Guitar" by Federico Garcia Lorca
The weeping of the guitar
<span> begins.
The goblets of dawn are
smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps
monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh, guitar!
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.
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1. Listening for main ideas.
2. Outlining main ideas.
3. Looking for key words.
4. Taking notes.
5. Weighing the evidence.
hope this helps :^)
<span>a. Nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey;
b. Nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons;
c. And standing troops, the bane of every state,
Forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far
d.And stretch their empire o'er the wide domain.
On a broad base the commonwealth shall stand
e. When crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, Nor petty pretors plunder here for kings
Figurative language is the use of words that is beyond their literal meaning. Examples of figurative language are simile, metaphors, personification, etc.
B and D are use personification as the figurative language.
Personification is giving human characteristics to animals, object, and ideas.
B.) cities - weep
D.) commonwealth - stand
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I would say A. diction is concerned with the word choice within a work, and A is the only answer that focuses on that. B and C discuss places within the story, like the conflict and the climax, and plot structure and diction aren't exactly directly related. D discusses character development, which doesn't relate as closely to diction as choice A.
