Can someone please help me...please In this excerpt from her novel, My Antonia, Willa Cather uses several figures of speech in her descriptions. Quoting the text, list at least two of the figures of speech that Cather uses, and describe the effect each one has on the reader.

In the following quotes from early on in the novel, figurative language exalts the prairie and expresses happiness as a merger into nature. In the first quote, from early in the novel, Jim personifies the landscape and, by describing it using sea images, makes it feel alive and in motion like the waves. Wine stains, in conjunction with the sea, also bring to mind the great journeying of the Odyssey:

As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running . . .

Below, we see the likening of the self to pumpkins, which are both inanimate, organic plants and vegetables whose very roundness and bright orange color communicate joy. They are an image of happiness

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your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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sugar had three primary uses in ancient india. it was used in religious rituals, consumed as a snack, and considered a type of medicine.