Click to read "I Am Offering this Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Then answer the question. What point is the poet making through the figurative language in the third stanza of the poem?

What word or phrase is modified by the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? marisol's puppy likes napping under the couch because it is warm and cozy

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?