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Choose five words from five separate lines in the poem, "One Today" by Richard Blanco that you would have changed if you had been the original writer of this poem.

Write to explain what changes you would have made with these five word choices and why you would change them in this way.
Also explain how the use of the online dictionary and/or thesaurus assists you in making these choices.

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Answer from: keishonnawimbush

The changes that I would have made are replacing;

Kindle with awaken.Gleaning with extracting.Symphony with consonnance.Crescendoing with peaking.Gloss with shine.

The changes that I would have made to different words in this poem are the above. The reason for these changes is the fact that they are simpler and would be more easily understood by anyone reading the poem.

The online dictionary was helpful in choosing these words because it provided an array of synonyms that would be better replacements.

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Answer from: alyo31500

Truth-Fortune

Charging-Whelming

Windows-Souls

Geometry-Lessons

Slide-Play

Explanation:

1. Poet has mentioned Truth to describe the world facts and wisdom, replacing fortune will make it more refreshing.

2. Chatrging onto the rocks or say mountains hits us hard in a away that describe stumbling all around.Whelming refers to taking a hurdle with all smiles on and on.

3. Silent gestures played behind resembles silect actions for love and out of fondness. For this, windows can be inferred as souls..

4. Lerning geometries of life is essential which can be further inferred to be life lessons one should be aware of in order to deal with situations with humbleness, respect and regards.

5. Slide over here refers to a mopther seeing her children growing day by day beautifully as they slide off.The word alternative for this can be Play as well.

Answer from: Quest

the answer would be d. he tells the story through a teenage narrator.

Answer from: Quest

- "when these words are put together to convey a meaning it is known as a sentence. a sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense. placing of words in a sentence is very important. the second sentence is a question."

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