Imagery is the correct answer I think
The main idea of the passage above from Cotton Mather's "The Wonders of the Invisible World" is to justify the outcome of the trials. Thank you for posting your question. I hope this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help.
The words “You don’t have to feel like a waste of space” meaning that you yourself are worth something so you are not a waste. “You are original, cannot be replaced” it means you are the only one out there. Nobody is exactly like you, so if you disappear no replica can be made. “If you only knew what the future holds” means that there is a lot of potential for you and it gets better in the future. “After a hurricane comes a rainbow” meaning that it always gets worse before it gets better. So in all it starts from telling you, you are something and someone and to keep in mind that it will be worse but in the future the rainbow will show the light of how it gets better.
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If someone has their head down or they’re sad, you tell them to keep their chin up so that their crown doesn’t slip. Telling them that they should stay happy or they’re worth it
This excerpt probably should have included the verse following it, which
is "Here is Odysseus' hall, no hall like this!" So they are standing at
the gate at the home of Odysseus.
He has in fact made a long
journey home, so B could be correct. The journey did require patience
and endurance, so A could be correct. But I would go with D, happiness
upon returning home.
A reasonable argument could be made for
all of the above. Symbolism can be subjective, and each reader may
interpret things differently.
