The sentence is:
Your presence at the funeral of your best friend's father is an indispensable consolation for your friend.
This is a literary technique known as conceit.
A conceit<span> is a kind of metaphor that compares two very different things in a remarkable and smart way. In this poem, the two opposing forces are light and darkness. But still, the author was able to equate them together in a surprising way to relate them both to the theme of beauty.</span>
Can you please provide the passage?
Answer:
Sunlight (not sure why it said 'chemicals' instead of sunlight)
Explanation:
A. water
B. sunlight
C. glaciers
D. wind
While all the answers have a degree of validity, option C is the most correct one. Flashbacks are essentially a narrative technique that allows the author to break the usual monotony of storytelling by jumping back and forth between events and turning a linear story (from point A to point B) into a circular one (from point B to point C through point A, for instance).