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Read The Age of Innocence
, by Edith Wharton
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Wharton, taken by evolutionary theories and anthropology, used related terminology ("chosen specimens") to describe her thoughts about the 1870's New York being in contradiction with Europe, which was devastated by the war.
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Wharton describes Newland Archer as feeling "distinctly the superior of these chosen specimens of old New York gentility," showing that he considers himself intellectually and culturally superior to his New York elders and their rigid society.
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"Sitting there like a lap dog" is a simile because it's comparing two things through the use of the word "like".
"The jungle drums began beating" correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is personification, but it depends a bit on the context.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust." Macbeth is the main protagonist of the play, arguably a Tragic hero.
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