It means he is making a rude gesture.
All of the above? Or for the most part C
Answer:
This says Mrs. White has a sense of reason that Mr. White may lack. She doesn't have a competitive sense that her husband has.
Explanation:
"Father and son were at chess, the former, who possesses ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire.
"Never mind, dear," said his wife soothingly; "perhaps you'll win the next one."
Answer:
Metaphor
Explanation:
Alliteration has same starting consonants. Ex. "Shelly sold seashells down by the seashore." Notice the majority of the word start with S.
Personification is humanizing something. Ex. "Lightning danced across the sky." Humans dance and here we are comparing the movement of lightning to the movement of dancing people.
Metaphors are comparisons of two things, non living.
"She has a heart of gold", its just a figure of speech because people cannot have hearts of gold, just like the the "it" cannot actually burn with topaz light because topaz does not actually have a light.
He fits the archetype of the tragic hero.
