An autobiography is a first-person account of an entire life, while a memoir uses a person’s life story to elevate a larger theme or idea.
Answer:
1) With the men coming home at the end of World War II, the women were expected to return to their duties as housewives and caretakers. This led to many decades of gender inequality, the effects of it we are still seeing today.
2) With the beginnings of the Cold War on the horizon, many Americans began creating intense and fanatical virtues of nationalism and American pride that, over the years, has incorporated trends of outright racism, bigotry, and misogyny.
Explanation:
A metaphor is used to compare two things without using the words 'as' or 'like' in the sentence.
Example: He is such a pig - that sentence compares two things the boy and the pig and no words such are mentioned with 'as or like' therefore it is a metaphor