<span>The answer is true - Both Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon wrote about their firsthand knowledge of the horrors a soldier encountered on the battlefield.</span>
The correct answer is the second one “an absence of love or passion.” In the poem, the general intention of the author is to describe his feelings about the love/passion that it is leaving his life. The sentence “dead leaves and snow”, is the way in which he introduces the absence feeling that he is going through. The birds, as well as the leaves of the tree, are metaphors of love, which are abandoning the tree (his life).
Context clues are used to (option 1) <span>Decipher the meaning of an unknown word.
When you do not know the meaning of a word, it is possible to look at what comes before and after it, the surroundings which are going to give you context clues to infer the meaning. there are 6 types of context clue, for example, root words and affix, contrast, logic, definition, etc. </span>
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