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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Morning Haiku (2010) is a book of poetry by African American poet Sonia Sanchez.
• Each poem in the book is a sequence of haiku.
• According to the book’s publisher, Penguin Random House, the book “celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures.”
• The poem “15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)” is written as a sequence of fifteen haiku.
• The poem “7 haiku (for Ray Brown)” is written as a sequence of seven haiku.

The student wants to contrast the number of haiku in each poem. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

The poem “15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)” consists of fifteen haiku, whereas the poem “7 haiku (for Ray Brown)” consists of seven.

B

Both “15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)” and “7 haiku (for Ray Brown)” can be found in Sanchez’s 2010 collection Morning Haiku.

C

While “15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)” is about writer Toni Morrison, “7 haiku (for Ray Brown)” is about bassist Ray Brown.

D

The poems in Morning Haiku celebrate the lives or mourn the deaths of “revered African American figures,” according to the book’s publisher, Penguin Random House.