She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. what is ironic about the sensory imagery in the stanza? the little girl is preparing her appearance carefully for church, but the church will be bombed. the little girl is going, against her mother’s wishes, to participate in a freedom march on the streets of birmingham. the little girl has to decide between going to church or to school. the mother asked the little girl to hurry, but the little girl is taking her time getting ready.

The little girl is preparing her appearance carefully for church, but the church will be bombed.

Explanation:

This is an excerpt from the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham." In this poem, Dudley Randall talks about the bombing of a black church by white supremacists in Birmingham, Alabama. This bombing was shocking for a lot of people, and the poem became very popular. In this stanza, the author describes the careful preparation of a girl who is going to church, and the irony lies in the contrast between her careful preparation and the fact that the church will be bombed.

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.