Question

blades of grass hung from the pockets
or our tiger suits. we wove
ourselves into the terrain,
content to be a hummingbird’s target.
which sentence best describes one effect of the poet’s use of imagery in this
excerpt?

a. it shows how soldiers had to blend into their environment to
successfully fight the war.

b. it compares two unlike things, a soldier and a tiger, to emphasize
the predatory nature of war.

c. it attributes human qualities to the landscape in order to capture
the realities of war.

d. it succeeds in bringing the reader into a dangerous environment to
capture the atrocities of war.

Explanation:

The imagery ("blades of grass hung from the pockets or our tiger suits," "wove ourselves into the terrain") directly depicts soldiers merging with their surroundings, which aligns with option A. The other options misinterpret the imagery: B incorrectly frames the tiger suit as a comparison to war’s predation, C does not involve personifying the landscape, and D focuses on atrocities not emphasized here.

Answer:

A. It shows how soldiers had to blend into their environment to successfully fight the war.