Read the excerpts from the beginning, middle, and end of
"a genetics of justice" by julia alvarez.
how does the author develop the central idea across these
excerpts?
passage a:
perhaps because i was spared, at ten, from the dictatorship
my parents endured most of their lives, i often imagine what
it must have been like for them growing up under the
absolute rule of generalísimo rafael leonidas trujillo.
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alvarez shows how, throughout her life, she learned
about the dictatorship from her parents' fear of and
responses to it
alvarez wrote about life under the dictatorship, even
though doing so ruined her relationship with her mother.
alvarez shows how her lifelong fascination with her
parents' life under the dictatorship was the basis for her
writing.
alvarez shows how her mother counted on her to
someday write a novel about the dictatorship.
passage b:
i knew very little about what was actually going on in the
dominican republic. whenever la situación on the island
came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices.
passage c:
then i started to work on my second novel. my mother
heard from one of my sisters that i was writing about the

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification