Why does the poet describe the leaves as having a "color like blood" in the first stanza? A)
to make the reader contemplate his or her own guilt
B)
to implicate the boy in his own murder in this poem
to add an element of comedy to an otherwise drab poem
D)
to add to the murderous and forbidding tone of the poem

Why might the author have included the detail about father paul picking up the magazine? 1. it illustrates the constant conflict father paul faces in trying to communicate with leon.2. it establishes father paul as a well-read intellectual.3. it suggests that similar missionary work was causing conflict in other places as well.4. it shows that he was trying to remind himself that he did not agree with the people’s beliefs.(it's 3 )

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

As usual the nurse has trouble getting to the point what does juliet think happened before she learns the truth?