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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
<em>Chapter 18, Pages Vary</em>
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
"Loyalty, Honor, A willing heart, I can ask no more than that."
Answer:
In the opening sentence of the story the author states that "you were always a gambler" and you, "took chances." This shows that the main character is willing and able to take any and all risks necessary in order to escape slavery. This sets the tone for the type of person that the main character strives to be. The text foreshadows more to describe the main character being on a wooden ship.
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According to the selection from “The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions,” Wat Tyler’s ultimate goal was to
1. Make all men equal in freedom, rank and power.
2. Destroy the church
3. Eliminate hierarchy.
He did all these by attempting to murder the top class men, then killing the archbishop and divided the estate of the rich to the commoners.
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[She] had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all
the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of
those absurd and extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of
twenty one sometimes inspires in a plain, angular, spectacled woman of
thirty. (Willa Cather, "A Wagner Matinee")
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Answer:
understatement : "a little busy"
It's an understatement because this person would be more than a little busy, because of the amount of work.
HYPERBOLE would be considered exaggeration...this can be confusing. :)
