Question

I need help! please

Answer 1

For what ?

Answer 2

read the first paragraph, and notice how the highly descriptive opening paragraph functions as both a literal and figurative “beginning,” leading to the phrase “where Creation was begun.” What structural relationship do you see in the first paragraph?

Answer 3

A single knoll1 rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

Answer 4

I just need help understanding what the question is, like what a "structural relationship" is.

Answer 5

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/structural

Answer 6

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/relationship

Answer 7

okay, that helps me understand a little bit more, thanks!

Answer 8

Literal and figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis. Literal language refers to words that do not deviate from their defined meaning. Non-literal or figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative_language

Answer 9

so, can you help me answer the question @Ryaan?

Answer 10

like, walk me through it?

Answer 11

I thought @L-Lawliet-L has already helped you!
Well, then I need to read the whole passage!!

Answer 12

that is the whole passage, here I will open a new question

Answer 13

Okay! I'll try!