What type of figurative language is the use of the word Selma here?
Answer: It is <u>an allusion</u>.
Explanation:
As a figure of speech, an allusion is a brief reference to an event, person, place or idea. This reference does not include a detailed description. In the first stanza of “Monet’s Waterlilies”
, Robert Hayden makes a quick allusion to the civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, which took place in 1965:
<em>"Today as the news from Selma and Saigon</em>
<em>poisons the air like fallout"</em>
How does this example of figurative language affect the last line of the stanza?
Answer: It sets up contrast.
Explanation:
In the last line of the stanza, the author mentions<em> "the serene, great picture" </em>that he loves. This is in direct contrast with the first line of the stanza, where he describes a disturbing event in which people who protested in peace were attacked by police. This picture looks like anything but serene - the word serene means untroubled and peaceful, and serves as a direct contrast to the scene from the first line.
B is correct "A social commentator, who explains what a book says about people in general."
1) When it comes to Shakespeare our truncated attention spans might make it difficult to understand the complex structure and language within his work.
2) A contemporary of Shakespeare's may have understood the language in his works because they lived at the same time as him.
3) Many readers like the phantasmagoric scenes in Shakespeare's plays because they are dreamlike or surreal.
4) We get a vicarious thrill out of reading fiction because it provides us with imagined interpretations.
Wait is this a question Bc all I see is a quote
