Answer:
If your options are:
A. The poem uses variations of meter to affect rhyme.
B. The poem’s sentences flow across stanzas.
C. The poem’s stanzas have varying lengths.
D. The poem uses nontraditional syntax and rhyme scheme.
Then the answer is D.
Explanation:
The nontraditional syntax is best shown in the use of enjambment - interrupting the thought and syntactic structure in the middle and moving the rest to the next line. For example: "and older than the // flow of human blood (...)"
Here, the definite article "the" has been separated from the noun "flow", which means the phrase is visually broken in half.
- A isn't true because this poem conveys its meaning through rhythm and not rhyme. There are virtually no rhymes here and the syntax (sentence structure) is disrupted, invoking the sound of a river flowing in irregular but consistent waves.
- B isn't true because the sentences do flow across lines but not across stanzas.
- The stanzas do have varying lengths. But even though this element was pretty rare prior to the 20th century, it is not exclusive to modernist poetry. That's why C isn't true either.
B. Say to himself or herself, “Is that really true?
The correct answer is A. It is his turn to learn the family game, like his father and grandfather did years before him.
Explanation
The previous text talks about dominoes, a traditional game for Javier's family. In the text, his grandfather invites him to learn how to play dominoes and play with him and his father. In the beginning, Javier is not entirely convinced, but later he understands that this tradition is very important for his family, and he realizes that the empty chair was the space that had always been for a new member of the family to learn to play as his father and grandfather. As the author expresses saying "The empty chair beside mi father convinced me to take part". According to the above, the correct answer is A. It is his turn to learn the family game, like his father and grandfather did years before him.
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Answer:
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