It means to grow things off a ship to lighten its load
<span>Allegory is a form in which the idea is everything. The author has composed the story according to a plan; the reader's job is to decode the plan. Characters in allegory are rarely more than figures standing for ideas. While allegory is rarely written today, many writers of academic/literary fiction use SYMBOLISM in much the same way - characters exist primarily to stand for an idea, and readers must decode the symbolic structure in order to receive the story. Allegory involves creating a fairly thoroughgoing pattern of SYMBOLISM in which all major events and characters in a story have a meaning beyond themselves and those meanings can be put together to make some sort of overall sense.</span>
Grey is the basic color tone that rules the whole novel. It symbolizes decadence, bleakness, corruption and disillusionment and represents moral decay, spiritual emptiness and death. The valley of ashes is a grey place where everything is colored grey.
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According to <em>Grammarly,</em>
A gerund phrase is a phrase consisting of a gerund and any modifiers or objects associated with it. A gerund is a noun made from a verb root plus <em>ing </em>(a present participle). A whole gerund phrase functions in a sentence just like a noun, and can act as a subject, an object, or a predicate nominative.
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