The theme for this story could be that if you work hard enough, you can leave your troubles and problems behind. The theme could also be that if you try too hard to avoid danger , than you might put yourself in more of it.
She said, "I really gave him a piece of my mind".
In this passage, Nick reflects on what the landscape must have looked like when the Dutch explorers arrived to the continent. He is looking at Gatsby's house, and at this point in the novel, we know that Nick believes that New York, as well as the people he has met, are vile, corrupt and greedy. He contrasts this view with that of the pristine continent on the arrival of the European settlers.
The phrase "fresh, green breast of the New World" presents a view that is "fresh." The land is new, but it is also fresh in the sense that it is not rotten. The land has not yet been "infected" with the corruption of modern times. Therefore, the phrase is intended to represent a time before America had become a land of greed and vice.
B. Women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized.
6. D. Personification. This is because the phrase gives the limbs of trees a description that makes it sound alive.
7. A. Simile. This is because similes are compared using like or as, and the sentence has the word like.
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