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Refer to the following passage when answering the question:
What had been wanted was this always, this always to last, the talking softly on this porch, with the snake plant in the jardiniere in the southwest corner, and the obstinate slip from Aunt Eppie's magnificent Michigan fern at the left side of the friendly door. Mama, Maud Martha, and Helen rocked slowly in their rocking chairs, and looked at the late afternoon light on the lawn and at the emphatic iron of the fence and at the poplar tree. These things might soon be theirs no longer. Those shafts and pools of light, the tree, the graceful iron, might soon be viewed possessively by different eyes.
(Brooks, Gwendolyn, "Home." Impact: 50 Short Short Stories. Second Ed. [Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996], 77-79.)
As used in the excerpt, the words "talking softly" _____ speaking at a low volume; they also _____ speaking warmly in a friendly manner.
A. symbolize; personify
B. connote; denote
C. denote; connote
D. personify;symbolize
What had been wanted was this always, this always to last, the talking softly on this porch, with the snake plant in the jardiniere in the southwest corner, and the obstinate slip from Aunt Eppie's magnificent Michigan fern at the left side of the friendly door. Mama, Maud Martha, and Helen rocked slowly in their rocking chairs, and looked at the late afternoon light on the lawn and at the emphatic iron of the fence and at the poplar tree. These things might soon be theirs no longer. Those shafts and pools of light, the tree, the graceful iron, might soon be viewed possessively by different eyes.
(Brooks, Gwendolyn, "Home." Impact: 50 Short Short Stories. Second Ed. [Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996], 77-79.)
As used in the excerpt, the words "talking softly" _____ speaking at a low volume; they also _____ speaking warmly in a friendly manner.
A. symbolize; personify
B. connote; denote
C. denote; connote
D. personify;symbolize