Read the excerpt from "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty. She was meditating, and not ready, and when he came at her she only hit him a little with her cane. Over she went in the ditch, like a
little puff of milkweed
What does the phrase "like a little puff of milkweed" suggest?
A). Phoenix stops on the path and bends over to pick some flowers and falls.
B). Phoenix falls asleep while standing on the path and falls into a bed of flowers.
C). Phoenix attempts to knock the milkweed out of her way with her cane.
D). Phoenix is as delicate and lightweight as a flower, causing her to lose her balance and fall over.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.