Read this sentence from the passage. everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. how does the phrase "gave birth" affect the meaning of the sentence?
keller finds the task of learning the names of things to be very difficult.
learning the names of things is a tedious process for keller.
learning the names of things is like a new beginning for keller.
keller wants to share the joy of learning the names of things with others.

Learning the names of things is like a new beginning for Keller.

Explanation:

The phrase “to give birth” evokes the idea of new beginnings. In this metaphor, the narrator expresses that each thing and its name opened her mind, it made her think of and comprehend something new, and in a way learning the names of things was like a new beginning for her.

This excerpt comes from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. Keller was an American lecturer and political activist that was also deaf and blind but who accomplished many things despise such condition.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.