1. Which of the following best summarizes the action of this poem?
O A A woman reflects on her childhood when she was
denied the right to an education. She describes the
great risks that she and other slaves took in order to
learn.
OB A speaker, who was once a slave, describes how she
managed to escape so that she could attend school in
the North.
O C The narrator, a slave holder, describes her childhood
growing up on a plantation in the South.
D The speaker, a former slave, describes the extreme
brutality she experienced under the hand of Mr.
Turner, the slave master,

Chicago by carl sandburg hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?

Based on part two of trifles, which of the following images most reinforces the them of loneliness that exists throughout the play?