Answer: it emphasizes the displacement of the speaker's family.
Throughout the poem, the author maintains an extended metaphor about swimming. As she tells us the story of how her family escaped the island, she talks to us about swimming, drowning, the beach, the pool, etc. This is intended to emphasize the displacement of the family. Alvarez feels lost and adrift, much like we would feel if we were lost at sea.
Answer: Number of letters, starting letter, ending letter, number of consonants, position of consonants, number of vowels, number of vowels in a row, position of vowels, number of syllables.
Explanation: Both have 4 letters, start with the letter P, end with the letter R, have 2 consonants that are at the beginning and end of the word, have 2 vowels that are in a row and in the middle of the word, and both are one syllable long.
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Nah I'm kidding
My great grandfather worked in the coal mines as a child. At the time, he was sinewy and though he was small, he was very strong. There was very little repose. He said the workers had very little time to rest, and they were worked to the bone day in and day out. He showed me the scars he still possessed from those days, and with very little rest in that time, he could never really outgrew his lean figure. Would he have been brawny and strong like the men of today if he had rested from work? I could not imagine my great grandfather being anywhere near muscular even if he was young.
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