I would say understatement.
Example: You fall down the stairs and break your leg.While the ambulance is on the way, your friends asks how much it hurts and instead of wanting to seem like a crybaby you downplay how much pain you're actually in. Which is an understatement.
Answer:
Both describe why it is difficult to live without excitement and fun.
Explanation:
One similarity that these texts share is the fact that they both discuss the idea of living without excitement and fun. In the first example, we learn that the raven is bored with his life, and this is the reason why he decides to leave and fly over the earth. In the second example, we learn that the sons felt trapped and unhappy because they had no space to live their own lives.
Answer:
The definition of aristocratic is someone or something that is part of or similar to royalty or people who believe they are superior in some way. When someone likes to buy expensive things and enjoy the best of everything it is an example of having aristocratic tastes.
The essay by Henry David Thoreau in which he makes more elaborate use of metaphor is "Walden, or, Life in the Woods" (1854).
In this essay, Thoreau uses more elaborate metaphor to convey the ideas of nonindividuality and to show how the human mind is easily influenced as the Earth's soil is marked by the steps of others.
The way in which he describes and metaphorizes nature and human existance in the space of Walden Pond contributes to adapt complex and abstract ideas of humanistic guidance into understandable language.
The option "<u>descriptions of time and place</u><u> </u><u>character motivation and </u><u>plot.</u><u>"</u> is the correct answer.
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(Answered by Benjemin)