Answer:
The role that the cane toad play in the Hawaiian Islands is "invasive species"
Explanation:
The excerpt describes the process of how the cane toad was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, as a new species in this land and to control pests, it also mentions that by not having many predators the number of cane toads grows rapidly, this two points are clear examples of what represents an invasive species which come from a different land and grows excessively in a new one becoming a new threat to the environment. As the name of the kind of role they played shows, they invaded the Hawaiian lands.
The correct answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a rhetorical figure of speech where two or more things are symbolically compared, without using the words such as like or as (because that would be a simile). This whole poem is symbolical/metaphorical - it talks about the passage of time and how everything is transient and fleeting.
According to the excerpt from "monstrous people at the end of the earth ,"how did monsters of the 16th century differ from the ones known during ancient times?
In English, repeating words or phrases is referred to as anaphora. Anaphora is a rhetorical device in which sentences start with the same word or sequence of words. In the example given to us, anaphora is shown by the repetition of the word “hello.”