Read the following excerpt from "the four hundred year old woman" by bharati mukherjee and answer the following question.
i have found my way in the united states after many transit stops. the unglimpsed phantom faridpur, and the all too real manhattan have merged as "desh." i am an american. i am an american writer, in the american mainstream, trying to extend it.
what is the implied meaning the author is trying to convey in the allusion all too real manhattan?
a. the lively and bustling city
b. the good and bad of manhattan
c. that manhattan has gotten the best of her
d. manhattan is much like her family's homeland

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.