What is the author's purpose in paragraph 12? A. to persuade readers that a change in the education system is necessary to teach
life skills
B. to demonstrate how teachers can indirectly provide life skills instruction
O D. to provide readers with an illustration of how life skills are taught
O C. to argue the importance of including life skills in school curricular.

To create unity throughout the poem

The answer is actually b. explanation: lines that signify human-like characteristics: “a half a dozen kissed the eves”raindrops don’t usually ‘kiss’ anything, as it is a human action. lines that signify playfulness: “and made the gables laugh” a gable is the part of a wall that encloses a pitched roof, so it is certainly not living and cannot really laugh. this is a human characteristic and signifies playfulness.