The phrase "lily of a man" as it is used in line 3 of Gary Soto's poem most closely means an anxious weakling, as is said in option C and explained below.
To find the answer, we used our knowledge of context clues.
<h3>What are context clues?</h3>
Context clues are any words or phrases that help us figure out the meaning or connotation of other words or phrases in the same context. Here, we need to understand the meaning of "lily of a man."
The context clues used for that is "A coward I am not," the phrase that comes immediately before "lily of a man." Since both phrases complete each other, we can assume they have similar meanings.
Therefore, we can safely conclude the speaker is saying that he is not an anxious weakling, not a coward. The best answer in this case is option C.
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Persuade means to convince someone to believe, follow, accept, etc. your idea or suggestion. So your answer should be C. To Convince. Hope this helps! =^-^=
Answer: Essentially saying to not act different around certain people because in the end no one's life/ soul in this case is worth more than another
Explanation
Answer:he didn't want to
Explanation:
because he just didn't feel like
