Which quotation best supports the theme “The prairie can take the life out of people who are not prepared for it”?
A. “His hazel eyes were little and shrewd, like his mothers but more sly and suspicious.
B. They were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood.
C. Even from a distance one could see that there was something strange about this boy
D. His face was ruggedly formed but it looked like ashes-like something from which all the warmth and light had died out.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Comparing and contrasting is a form of

In the song mallam sile sings in lines 113 through 130 the knife probably represents