Item 8 Review this passage from "The Morns are Meeker Than They Were."

The Maple wears a gayer scarf--

The field a scarlet gown--

What is the meaning of this use of personification?

The maple tree and the field are changing in appearance as the seasons change.

The speaker is hallucinating and thinks that the maple and the field are wearing clothes.

The use of personification has no effect on this poem.

This is a nonsense poem featuring made-up character

You're playing the slots and "win" twenty-five bucks! you're stoked. during the past ten weeks, you've won another fifty bucks. but you've dropped two bucks in the slot machines every day for ten weeks

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings

Fill in the blanks by identifying the verb or verb phrase [verb], and gerund [gerund] in each sentence below. i ate a sandwich