They grow. the hills, the highlands, the mountains grow. waves. waves of gigantic, seamless mass from the cretaceous that become, at the height of the american world, the fairest crown of water: titicaca." by using terms like fairest crown and cretaceous, miguel ángel asturias's "lake titicaca" is a. they quote the foremost linguistic specialists. b. they list numerous statistics from research. c. they pose questions to the readers in an attempt to mimic the same questionable communication they have with their family members. d. they give anecdotes from their own lives.

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.