Which of the excerpts is an example of personification? A Well, son, I'll tell you:/ Life for me ain't been no crystal stair./ It's had tacks in it,/ And splinters,/ And boards torn up,/ And places with no carpet on the floors/ Bare. B I'd love to take a poem to lunch/ or treat it to a wholesome brunch/ of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch. C I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils; D The Moon's a snowball. See the drifts/ Of white that cross the sphere./ The Moon's a snowball, melted down/ A dozen times a year.

B) I'd love to take a poem to lunch/ or treat it to a wholesome brunch/ of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch.

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device, that designate the attributes/qualities of human to an object. It assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things. It assign human characteristics to an object so that catching imagery is formed. From the given option B "I'd love to take a poem to lunch/ or treat it to a wholesome brunch/ of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch" we can see that the attribute of human was assigned to a poem because only human can be taken to lunch, a poem cannot be taken to lunch.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)