What is always used between items in a series when one or more of those items contains a comma?

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

it u understand what he thought at the time and let u know more about him then what third person would of known probably. hope this : )

me

explanation:

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)