The author uses a word that means "causing impatience, annoyance, or displeasure." Click on the word in the text that best represents that idea.
The kitchen? This is making even less sense now. My grandmother never allows
anyone but my mom into her kitchen! Why on earth is she insisting I come over here on a
Saturday and head to the kitchen? When I turn to say goodbye to Mom, she gives me a wink
and a hug and whispers into my ear, "Congratulations, Claudia. I'm so proud of the young lady
you have become." I seriously have no idea what is going on here, and I must admit that this
whole thing is becoming increasingly more aggravating,
And then, as I walk in to Abuela's kitchen, it begins to make a lot more sense. Sitting on
her kitchen table are an apron and The Book. I turn to Abuela, and she offers me a glowing
smile. "You have made it, Claudia," she whispers to me with a combination of nostalgia and
pride. "Only the women in our family are given the privilege of knowing the secret recipes
found in The Book. My Abuela shared its contents with me when I turned thirteen, and now I
have the honor of sharing it with you."

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification