What do you know about imagery? choose the 2 correct answers.

a imagery refers to words, and groups of words, that change the normal meanings of the words.

b imagery is vivid language that appeals to the senses.

c imagery is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

d imagery is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

e imagery the reader to relate to the story and learn more about the characters.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the rhyme scheme of "an open boat" is abcb abab abba aabc

What syllables in "arrived" are stressed/unstressed?

In the section the deciding pitch what is the narrators point of view on how th pitcher feels about the upcoming event