Which of the following is a rule of hyphen usage?
Select one:

A. Hyphens can be used to replace parentheses but not brackets.
B. Hyphens can be used to replace brackets but not parentheses.
C. Hyphens can replace colons to add sentence variety
D. Hyphens and dashes are not interchangeable.

When you wear your earbuds while working out, your sweat damages them and they die sooner

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Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?