<span>The Chrysanthemums” is an understated but pointed critique of a society that has no place for intelligent women. Elisa is smart, energetic, attractive, and ambitious, but all these attributes go to waste.
Although the two key men in the story are less interesting and talented than she, their lives are far more fulfilling and busy.
Henry is not as intelligent as Elisa, but it is he who runs the ranch, supports himself and his wife, and makes business deals.</span>
The man is trying to ward off animals
The type of figurative language used in the excerpt is B. hyperbole.
Hyperbole is the figure of speech in which you exaggerate everything - the narrator didn't really lose his head, he is exaggerating in order to show a strong emotion.
<span>"Self-Reliance" "Song of Myself" "The Great Lawsuit" "Because I could not stop for Death"
All of these pieces were considered Transcendental works. Their authors, Emerson (Self Reliance), Whitman (Song of Myself), Fuller (The Great Lawsuit), and Dickinson (Because I could not), were all famous transcendental writers, and these pieces kept in theme with many of those qualities. </span>
