Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins’s message?

C) It suggests that readers have fun exploring poetry.

Explanation:

The image provided by the words on the excerpt by Billy Collins, is pretty clear. When the excerpt talks about a person waterskiing, you cannot help but imagine someone having fun and enjoying themselves. So, when to the idea of waterskiing, and having fun, the author adds the information of poetry, and waving towards the name of a poet, as if to a friend, it clearly shows that people who read poetry can enjoy themselves as much as those who do not. It shows that poetry can be as much of a fun activity, especially when exploring it, as going to waterski.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.

european parent languages

expresses state of being