Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

My first flash

on the newsprint/face

she could have been

Obachan

back then just after

the camps

The virgule is used in the second and fifth lines of this excerpt to mean

if

or

with

without

Answer: Or

Explanation: I Got It Right On Odyssey

Or is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Virgule is also known as forward slash, and it is used in poetry to provide readers with a second option to the original meaning. In the second stanza, it could mean that the first flash could either be seen on the newsprint or on the speaker's face. In the fifth one, in provides the idea that even the time continues passing, memories still can take us back and create a then-now effect.