Compared to "in trying times" the diction of "girls can we educate we dads? " is more 1.) emotional 2.) abstract 3.) dejected 4.) informal

Wolf93 beat me to the punch but they were correct the answer is 4.) informational

The correct answer for this question is D. Compared to "In trying times" the diction of "Girls can we educate we dads" is more informal. The diction employed by the author in the poem may be described as vernacular. It is written in the Creole dialect. So that, the poem is not intending to appeal exclusively to people from a white, upper class background, since that is not the audience the poem would be addressed to.

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

the answer is c because info security should not use them for code