Answer:
c) It explains the author’s feeling that she is not important to her father
Explanation:
From the passage of <em>Only Daughter, </em>the narrator talks about how her father is always boasting or complaining to everyone that cared to listen that he has seven sons. He would tell the parish priest, the Sears Roebuck employee, the cook, and any other person within reach.
This action of the narrator's father shows that she does not feel important to her father because everything he ever boasts about is his "seven sons" without even acknowledging her.
Answer:
The oxymoron creates a contradictory mood, emphasizing the confused nature of love.
Explanation:
The oxymoron is a figure of speech that allows to present a paradox in the text, that is, the oxymoron presents in the same sentence, two contrary information, but that are complemented in some way.
In the text presented above, the oxymoron is seen in the lines "the sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own deliciousness". With this sentence, the author creates a contradictory mood, but presents a characteristic love as something confused, but pleasurable.
