The correct response is:
Rhetorical questioning, highlighting the forest's dual nature.
This choice accurately reflects the nature of the statement, as it emphasizes the contrasting feelings of safety and wildness that the forest evokes.
Read the passage, then answer the question below.
Passage 4
In the forest, the trees stood like ancient guardians, their branches whispering secrets to the starts. Lila wandered among them, her footsteps soft as a deer's. She felt small, like a grain of sand in an endless desert, but also alive, as if the forest's heart beat within her. She remembered her father's stories of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and fell. Was she, too, reaching for something beyond her grasp? The wind asked, "Why wander alone?" and the leaves seemed to reply, "Why not?" Lila smiled, her fears melting like snow in spring. The forests was her sanctuary, but also her challenge -- a place to find herself or lose everything.
If the passage included the statement "Isn't it strange how the forest feels so safe, yet so wild?", this would be an example of:
(1 point)
Responses
Irony, because the forest is actually dangerous.
Irony, because the forest is actually dangerous.
Rhetorical questioning, highlighting the forest's dual nature.
Rhetorical questioning, highlighting the forest's dual nature.
Allusion, referencing a mythological forest.
Allusion, referencing a mythological forest.
Personification, giving the forest human feelings.
1 answer