It is dramatic tension, as Miss Ophelia is being very dramatic in what she is talking about, and there is a dramatic subject that she is talking about. (Death) Hope I could help!
It is a metaphor, meaning you are spectuacular. (from usa at least)
Fancy
Miserable
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(those are 6 adjectives)
-became more radical in 1770s --> fierce opposition to British crown- 1770 he had come to the conclusion that american colonists should allow for British control, given some adjustments to current order of course- chaos and even violence including the recent Boston, came as a result of five years worth of instability, Massacre of 1770 in which British forces fired into a crowd of townspeople, killing five.- violence --> solution of revolution