These are the answers for questions 40 through 42:
40-B. “… blossoming like silver petals...” (line 48)
41-C. “Instead more than a million came to marvel at the titanium-clad miracle” (lines 64 and 65)
42-B. “Their master plan included a first-class musseum, so original that it would attract worldwide attention and rescue their town from its slow decline” (lines 6 through 8)
An understatement is the downplay of something.
Answer:
Explanation:
Ponyboy tells the reader that Darryl grew up too fast and that Sodapop has never grown up at all.
