What does the simile “And move like mastodons/Arising from lethargic sleep.” Lines 5 & 6 suggest about the black ships? a. that the poem’s setting is in the harbor/docks

b. the ships look as if they are elephants.

c. that the ships are small and minute.

d. that the ships are always sleepy.

DOCKS by Carl Sandburg

Strolling along
By the teeming docks,
I watch the ships put out. 3
Black ships that heave and lunge
And move like mastodons*
Arising from lethargic sleep. 6

The fathomed harbor
Calls them not nor dares
Them to a strain of action, 9
But outward, on and outward,
Sounding low-reverberating calls,
Shaggy in the half-lit distance,
They pass the pointed headland, 12
View the wide, far-lifting wilderness
And leap with cumulative speed
To test the challenge of the sea. 15

Plunging,
Doggedly onward plunging,
Into salt and mist and foam and sun. 18

*mastodons: prehistoric relatives of today's elephants

I would say it's D

Explanation:

A isn't the correct answer because this is established in the first three lines, "Strolling along By the teeming docks, I watch the ships put out." B is incorrect because the simile compares the ship's action to the mastodons, not their appearance. C is incorrect because just like B, the simile is not talking about appearance. Although, I'm only like 95% sure that's correct

the statement that best explains why the tenth amendment reserves some rights and powers to states is that the framers believed in the principle of federalism. this principle says that some powers are in the hands of a centralized national government, while others are reserved for the governments of several states.

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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