Answer:
it refers to comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in paragraph or lines in poem
These disasters
Grim specter
Tragedy
Stark reality
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The answers are
After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders.
I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.
These two are sentences because they are separated by peridods, commas only denote a smaller break in a long sentence. In these two sentences the author says that after learning how he got his medals the others were less enthused about them and started treating the narrator differently.
I would go with although both elephants,Asian and African elephants ate different in size ,genetics and habitat
