The sentence that best paraphrases the first sentence of the excerpt is "You aren't telling me anything I don't know". This is because the narrator uses the metaphor of "rousing me from a deep sleep" as saying that he was aware of the situation that was going on, it wasn't that he didn't know about it.
I believe a motif can contribute to, or become a theme when it gathers larger significance throughout a text. A theme is what you generally write about in a literary piece, so if you develop a metaphor further, it may come to denote a theme of a work.
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C (the universe is becoming hotter)
I dont get what you are saying..
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The effect of the authors' use of foreshadowing in Secret In Slovakia is that he wanted to portray the altogether different character of Aunt Gertrude from what the author's family had perceived her to be.