Read the poem.

incident
by countee cullen

once riding in old baltimore,
heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
i saw a baltimorean
keep looking straight at me.

now i was eight and very small,
and he was no whit bigger,
and so i smiled, but he poked out
his tongue, and called me, “ni*ger.”

i saw the whole of baltimore
from may until december;
of all the things that happened there
that's all that i remember.

which statement best describes the role that hyperbole plays in developing the theme of “incident”?

it expresses the themes of the poem by creating vivid imagery.

it adds to the tone of the poem by creating suspense.

it reinforces the significance of a single word.

it emphasizes the author’s innocence.

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.

Which sentence is written correctly? oa. according to the weather forecast, it will be sunny all week. ob. do you know weather she will attend the show? oc. we should expect cloudy whether during the weekend. od. i like to stay at home and read a good book during rainy whether.

In free the children why does the author provide a first-hand account of visiting a brick kiln? to emphasize how factory conditions have improvedto show a group of people wno iqbal escapeto emphasize the homic conditions of debt slaveryto show the place where iqbal was forced to work