Empathy is important when giving humor because you have to also feel what that other person is feeling and how they’re going to take your joke. If you were upset and you started joking on someone that might tear them down even more. You have to know when it’s time to be serious and not to be.
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Answer: A. The simile "like percussionists" helps to create a marching rhythm, which intensifies the poem's serious tone
Transitions help connect ideas, so the second option would be your answer.
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