Notice & Note: Why does Ackerman include Quoted Words-references to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "How Do I Love Thee?" and John Donne's poem The Flea"? Why would you expect to see citations like this in an informational text?

On one of his many outings through the brobdingnagian countryside, gulliver walks on a small path through a field. during this walk on the small path, how does gulliver get dirty? a. the dwarf throws at gulliver, b. the queen of brobdingnagian steps on gulliver, c. gulliver gets caught in a rainstorm, and d. gulliver falls in cow dung.