Fluid that removes ketchup stains: solvent
a merchant: vendor
found the apartment dull: bland
truce: armistace
isolate supporters: estrange
during an era: epoch
expunged evidence: obliterate
disowned son: disclaim
turned upside down: ransack
routine: infinite
Answer:
This stanza describes life as someone who has freedom.
When the bird leaps on the back on the wind, the implied comparison made is between wind and water stream. The free bird leaps on the back of the wind, as if it is floating itself on the back of a whirling current of water.
Answer:
This is a Lyric poem
Explanation:
The lyric poems are aimed to express strong emotons felt by one person, it is usually short and the author can make use of the literary devices such as meter or rhyme to make it sound musical. In the poem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is expressing sad feelings comparing a rainny day with a negative life, we can notice it comparing the first stanza with the second one: "<em>The day </em>is cold, and dark, and dreary" (1st stanza) "<em>My life</em> is cold, and dark, and dreary" (2nd stanza).
Aditionally, he is using the rhyme lo make the poem sound more musical:
"The day is cold, and dark, and <em>dreary;
</em>
It rains, and the wind is never <em>weary</em>"
"The vine still clings to the mouldering <em>wall</em>,
But at every gust the dead leaves <em>fall</em>"
Answer:
Explanation:
The actions and inactions of Monsieur Hamel, contributed to the development of the theme and main idea itself within the story since he was more concerned and bothered about showing the students that despite the circumstances, they should have it at the back of their minds not to let the lessons they've learned go to waste.
In one of the paragraphs, it states something like this
"Thereupon he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, and, bearing on with all his might, he wrote in the largest letters he could: “VIVE LA FRANCE!”
As we can see, Monsieur Hamel does not want the students to feel discouraged, rather encouraged about the new life that they'll be going into. He intends to make them not forget anything and everything and also for them to continue in their learning of the language, French, that is.