Answer and Explanation:
"Islands and Icebergs" by Ralph Semino Galan is a poem about reading a poem. <u>The speaker asks readers to imagine the paper as being the ocean and the words to be floating on the that ocean. That is a clue as to why he writes three lines per stanza. The length of the lines, along with their number, reminds us of the waves, even the foam, to floats up and down, back and forth, on the ocean. The author wrote three lines per stanza as a way to make the poem itself resemble an ocean, instead of simply asking as to imagine it.</u>
Answer:
C. personification
Explanation:
Personification is the figure of speech that promotes human capabilities and characteristics to an inanimate object or element of nature. We can see an example of this, in the excerpt shown in the question above, where the poem presents human characteristics to the ship. These characteristics are the ability to resist "every rack", the ability to be grim and daring.
Answer:
d
Explanation:
because there is a comma after I wanted to go to the haunted house but it was too expensive.
Answer:
the word "most" is a superlative
Answer:
Explanation:
1 - balance (this is spelled with an a instead of an e)
2 - claws (tigers have claws)
3 - hiding (hiding only has one d)
4 - sensitive (this should be lowercase, and is spelled with an i instead of an a)