It reinforces the significance of a single word.
The answer is letter B<span> - The speaker is sleeping and is awakened by someone calling to him.
</span><span>When the speaker says, "While I nodded, nearly napping, ..." he is sleeping, because when you're about to sleep you'll usually nod your head back and forth right when you're drifting off.
Answer: Letter B
Hope that helps. -UF aka Nadoa</span>
Will that's funny the right answer is.A.
The connotative meaning of the word “trunk” in the poem is “a container”. In the poem “<em>Verses Upon the Burning of our House</em>” by Anne Bradstreet (1666), the author expresses the traumatic <u>loss of her home and her possessions</u>. After awakening to the tragic event, she goes outside and watches her house and possessions burning down. Once the fire has been put out, she mourns for the physical items destroyed: the <em>trunk </em>and the <em>chest</em>, everything she “<em>counted best</em>”; her “<em>pleasant things</em>”.