Answer:
He shot it in the air to scare a man out of his collard green patch in his garden. Crazy. How can anyone be justified for being reckless with a gun?
Explanation:
Maybe this was the best way in which he knew how to handle the situation. He really did not know what race the person was - he just assumed that he was black and he shot to scare him away.
Answer:
PERSONIFICATION: Line 2: “lilting house”, lilting is an old school style of Gaelic singing, hence the house is personified.
Line 4 and 5: “Time” is personified as the speaker’s playmate.
Line 12: the sun has been personified and is defined as young.
Line 13: “time” is once again treated as the speaker’s friend.
Line 29: the farm is personified by the word “shoulder”.
ASSONANCE: Line 7: “trees” and “leaves” are vowel rhymes. They don’t rhyme perfectly, but the long “e” binds them together.
Line 8: “daisies” and “barley” are again vowel rhymes.
CONSONANCE: Line 9: “rivers” and “windfall” are consonant rhymes, where the “v” of rivers and “f” of windfall binds them together.
IMAGERY: Line 15: the speaker calls himself “green and golden” as a “huntsman and herdsman”.
ALLITERATION: Line 14: “mercy of his means”.
ANAPHORA: Line 21-23: the “and” is the word that these three lines begins with, this builds up the momentum of the poem.
SIMILE: Line 28: the farm is described as “a wanderer white/ with the dew”.
ALLUSION: Line 30: the call of Adam and Eve is a major allusion.
Answer:
1.) Snakes are very sensitive to vibrations in the ground.
2.) To avoid a snake bite, use protection. Wear special clothes and boots.
3.) My friend's snake left quite an impression on me.
4.) Snakes only attack first in situations where the feel frightened.
5.) The doctors made the decision to tale the tourist to the hospital.
6.) It's impossible for humans to read the expressions on the faces of animals like snakes.
7.) It's difficult to avoid a bite, because snakes have very fast reactions.
8.) In conclusion, I think that snakes are both beautiful and mysterious.
