D.J. MacHale's purpose after writing the book Sylo Chronicles is that people should not succumb to peer pressure.
The theme of a story is the message that the author passes across to the readers. It's the main point in a story. In this case, the theme of the story is that people should not succumb to peer pressure.
In the story, it can be deduced that the death of Marty was because she succumbed to peer pressure. Mr. Feit pushed her in collecting the ruby and she eventually died as a result. Even if other people are doing something bad, we should not join them.
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In the book Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, there are four main themes. They are the importance of family, hope and perseverance, and the effects of racism.
After doing some online searching, I've found that this question refers to figurative language. It is not an incomplete question, it was just missing the context for people to be able to understand it. Now that I know what it is about, I can safely answer:
Answer:
Simile.
Explanation:
In the phrase "Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed" we have something being compared to something else. Even though we don't know what it is, we know it is compared to burnt-out torches.<u> The comparison was made with the help of a support word, "like".</u> Its purpose it to attribute one or more qualities of a burnt-out torch to something else by saying they are similar. <u>Comparisons that use support words are called </u><u>simile.</u> They are a very common figure of speech along with metaphors, with the difference that metaphors also make comparisons, but without using support words.
Sentence b does not use an adverb clause
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