Read these lines from emily dickinson's "i'm nobody": i'm nobody! who are you? are you nobody, too? then there's a pair of us—don't tell! they'd banish us, you know. how dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog to tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog! how does the narrator view fame?

Dickinson sees fame as something she prefers to avoid. This short poem shows how Emily treasures keeping a private identity above all, and how little she cared about being in the public eye, she even disliked to be "somebody" (How dreary it is!); At the same time, she addresses the reader as a "nobody" too, as if it was a good thing to be.

substitute y = 2x - 4 to x + 2y = 12:

x + 2(2x - 4) = 12     use distributive property

x + (2)(2x) + () = 12

x + 4x - 8 = 12     add 8 to both sides

5x = 20     divide both sides by 5

x = 4

put the value of x to the first equation:

y = 2(4) - 4

y = 8 - 4

y = 4

this answer to this question is c. allegory

why?

stories with allegories have a hidden symbolic meaning with a theme. the hidden meaning can be political, or other real life problems.