Answer:
Fitzgerald's style in "The Jelly-Bean" can best be described as realism. Fitzgerald portrays the lifestyle and attitudes of the "Roaring Twenties" accurately and vividly. "The Jelly-Bean" depicts a stark reality of the partying, gambling, and alcoholism present in the 20s.
Explanation:
<u>The mood of this passage is GLOOMY AND MELANCHOLY.</u>
The prevailing emotion or mood found in the excerpt is gloomy/melancholy. This is clear when we pay attention to the author's approach to the main character and the overall setting: the character wakes up in impenetrable "blackness", there's no sound but the wind in the "blackened trees", he stood on a "cold autistic dark", and so on and so forth. All the setting is filled with darkness, there is nothing that evokes to something cheerful or enjoyable and the character is pensive in the middle of all that.
Answer:
a
Explanation:
the verb running used as a noun is a gerund
In my opinion, the correct answer is <span>D.) The author uses a metaphor to compare the West Riding men in their quest for money with hounds that pursue prey. From the context, we can realize that </span><span>Brontë was referring precisely to those men as money-thirsty people who underwent all kinds of small "local speculations" to earn money.</span>
