Review the passage from " the morns are meeker than thay were." the maple wewars a gayer scarf-- the field a scarlet gown-- wich best analyzes the meaning of this use of personification? a. this is a nonsence poem featuring made-up characters b. the use of personification has no effect on its poem. c. the speaker is hallucinating and thinks that the maple and field are wearing cloths. d. the maple tree and the field are changing in appearances as the seasons change

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme