But you were not listening, because you knew it already, had learned, absorbed it already without the medium of speech somehow from having been born and living beside it, with it, as children will and do. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt. a. first-person b. second-person c. third-person

The answer would be B.) Second Person.

Explanation; When you write in second person, you write with the words "you", first person is "I, me, my," and third would be someone's name (they, her, he).  This paragraph uses the "you", therefore it is second person. I hope this helps :)

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part a.   = c.)

part b. = a.)

explanation:

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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