The correct answer is the following: <em>option a. The universal theme of a story is often revealed at the resolution of the story, when the reader can see how the story ends.</em>
In literature the terms of "theme" and "universal theme" are commonly used. While the theme of a work of literature is defined as the main message revealed through a story, the universal theme is defined as a theme that applies to anyone and everywhere, that is relatable to a wide set of readers.
In both cases, to know the theme or the universal theme of a piece of literature work, it is needed to read through the whole story and analyze it to find out what the theme of it is, and if it can be a universal theme relatable to a big audience.
I think its an Idiom. I don't see like or as. So no simile. I don't see he is something like a marshmallow. - No metaphor. I also don't see a non-human thing doing human things- the grass was dancing in the wind. My answer would be an idiom.
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The sentence in the excerpt from leo Tolstoy's the death of ivan Ilyich that shows that ivan Ilyich's son is still innocent and uncorrupted despite the people around him is : Following him, the schoolboy crept in unnoticed, in a new uniform, poor little fellow, and wearing gloves.
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The narrator wants to see the "Evil Eye" once more before he kills the old man, but each night for the first week the old man is asleep when he sneaks into his room. Hope this helps! =)
