What does the simile “And move like mastodons/Arising from lethargic sleep.” Lines 5 & 6 suggest about the black ships? a. that the poem’s setting is in the harbor/docks

b. the ships look as if they are elephants.

c. that the ships are small and minute.

d. that the ships are always sleepy.

DOCKS by Carl Sandburg

Strolling along
By the teeming docks,
I watch the ships put out. 3
Black ships that heave and lunge
And move like mastodons*
Arising from lethargic sleep. 6

The fathomed harbor
Calls them not nor dares
Them to a strain of action, 9
But outward, on and outward,
Sounding low-reverberating calls,
Shaggy in the half-lit distance,
They pass the pointed headland, 12
View the wide, far-lifting wilderness
And leap with cumulative speed
To test the challenge of the sea. 15

Plunging,
Doggedly onward plunging,
Into salt and mist and foam and sun. 18

*mastodons: prehistoric relatives of today's elephants

I would say it's D

Explanation:

A isn't the correct answer because this is established in the first three lines, "Strolling along By the teeming docks, I watch the ships put out." B is incorrect because the simile compares the ship's action to the mastodons, not their appearance. C is incorrect because just like B, the simile is not talking about appearance. Although, I'm only like 95% sure that's correct

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)