Read the following sentence. Mariah’s voice shook and her hands fluttered as she floundered helplessly to answer the difficult questions Steven was asking her.

Choose the denotation for the word floundered.

restored
struggled
succeeded
maintained

The answer is struggled, I'm taking the test right now.

Explanation:

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.