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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 "5 haiku (for Brother Damu)" is written as a sequence of five haiku.
• The poem "15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)" is written as a sequence of fifteen 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?
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.
A
While "5 haiku (for Brother Damu)" is about activist Brother Damu, "15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)" is about writer Toni Morrison.
B
The poem "5 haiku (for Brother Damu)" consists of five haiku, whereas the poem "15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)" consists of fifteen.
C
Both "5 haiku (for Brother Damu)" and "15 haiku (for Toni Morrison)" can be found in Sanchez's 2010 collection Morning Haiku.
D