The poem "the rainy day" uses figurative language to draw comparisons between life in the rainy day. which of the following is one reason the poem uses a rainy day to build the metaphor?

a. because the rain and clouds that the speaker is nearing the end of life
b. because the rain and wind make the speaker miserable
c. because all people have dreary life's
d. because all people have experienced periods of gloomy weather before

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”