Read the following stanza from audre lorde's poem "hanging fire" and answer the question. i am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me the boy i cannot live without still sucks his thumb in secret how come my knees are always so ashy what if i die before morning and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed. why does lorde make the poem's speaker fourteen years old? to emphasize her status as an adult to call attention to her childishness to call attention to this transitional time between adolescence and adulthood to emphasize her maturity

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers

his tongue, i believe, was bloody and hanging out of his mouth.

he looked as if he were hungry.

he has several wolf-like qualities; a gray coat, sharp claws and yellow fangs.

those eyes made me feel, dear reader, like the end was near.

as i reached for a stick, he moved to the other side of the hill.

panting and hungry, he looked at me, a defenseless human and he snarled.

well i said my prayers, however, he simply turned and limped off.