Which excerpt from Leslie Marmon Silko’s story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" contains an example of personification?
A.The priest approached the grave slowly, wondering how they had managed to dig into the frozen ground. . . .
B.His fingers were stiff, and it took him a long time to twist the lid off the holy water.
C.The wind pulled the priest’s brown Franciscan robe and swirled away the corn meal and pollen that had been sprinkled on the blanket.
D. He felt good because it was finished, and he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water. . . .
Answer:
C.The wind pulled the priest’s brown Franciscan robe and swirled away the corn meal and pollen that had been sprinkled on the blanket.
Explanation:
Personification is the literary element that gives human attributes to inanimate objects.
The wind is not a living thing but it is depicted as pulling down the priest's Franciscan robe and swirling away the corn meal and pollen that were already sprinkled on the blanket.
Personification in summary is using human attributes like walking, laughing, crying, singing, etc to depict non living things.
My Spanish teacher <u>who wears flowers in her hair</u> is very pretty . The underlined pattern is the adjective clause. It is a clause because it is a sentence; it has got a subject : <em>who</em>, and a predicate: <em>wears flowers in her hair. </em>This clause works as an adjective because it qualifies the subject of the main sentence : <em>My Spanish teacher</em>. The adjective clause gives some specific information about the Spanish teacher.
March 23, 1961. To give Washington DC residents the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College because DC is not a state.
DC can have any amount of electors in the Electoral College like it was a state. The 23rd limits DC from having more votes than any other state disregarding DC’s population.
Explanation:
O person vs. society i think
Rather than explicitly describe a characters qualities, an author shows the character as he or she moves through the world, allowing the reader to infer the character qualities from his or her behavior!
Depending on a situation, for example if the plot is in Paris and the main character is in disparity. Their actions or their speech would tell us what’s happening
Implicit characterization is when you need to infer what a character is like. This occurs when an author gives you a characters thoughts, actions, interactions, speech, and context
