Need Help!! Have until 5 p. m. today. Q1 p. 2 end of poem - : On page 2, Woods on says, "I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins." How does Woodson use poetic style here, and how does this create meaning?

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He uses a simile (like rivers through my veins) to sort of paint a picture in the readers mind. The simile shows that while woods was  born in Ohio, the culture and stories of south Carolina have had a big impact on him and have become part of who he is. It could also mean that he knows their stories so well they seem to flow out of him in a way. Like he could tell anyone at anytime without making any mistakes.

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.