I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

Which line from the excerpt contains a metaphor?

"I ask them to take a poem"
"and hold it up to the light"
"like a color slide"
"or press an ear against its hive

What is the main effect produced by the repeated word pattern in the first two stanzas of the poem "your laughter"?

Me read the letter. dear aunt mary, you for the wonderful painting. you are so talented! i was thrilled that you chose to paint horses. you must have remembered that i was crazy about horses when i was a little kid—and i still love them. i have hung the painting in my room so that i can see it every morning when i wake up. your loving niece, celia what makes this letter appropriate for its intended audience? it is written from the third-person point of view. it is concise and impersonal. its sentence structure is varied. its language is informal.

What is the narrator's main conflict in this passage? a. he doesn't like someone mispronouncing his name. b. he has a history of beating up kids he doesn't like. c. he has a violent temper that he cannot control. d. he doesn't like "the kid" he mentions in the paragraph.