The personification is: “deathly oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld”
The extended metaphor is the line from “I wonder from room to room” to “a voice within me cries”, so the last 7 lines (sorry I didn’t feel like writing the quote out).
Anne is forced to stay in the house/attic every day to avoid being discovered. The attic itself is cramped and stuffy, especially with the 8 other people living there. She feels like a caged animal (a caged songbird in this case) because she is never allowed into the outside world.
Answer:
Positive
Explanation:
If you sound positive people around you will understand your speech better and think you take it seriously, but if you sound negative, then they won't take you seriously and will not understand the point you are trying to make.
But thats just my opinion.
<span>From the excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the lines that include the images of the horrors of industrialization are letters A, B and C.</span>
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A. it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
It shows that the area is painted red and black , the original color was red and it symbolizes the fertility and naturalness of the original civilization until industrialization came in. The black ones represent the massive dirt and grime that the industries emitted.
B. serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
Serpents of smoke means the trail of black smoke emitted from the factories of the industries. The production of these gases indicates that the industries are still producing something regardless of the effect it has on the environment and on the people.
C. black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.
The black canal represents the waste that the industry is producing and the smell that is stagnant for years as no one will try to clean the polluted water.</span>
The elements of society the story 'The Happy Man' is criticizing are: demands of jobs, death, and politics.
<u>Explanation:</u>
‘The Happy Man’ is a short story written by Naguib Mahfouz which gives its readers a deep message. The author have made use of satire wherein he criticizes some aspects of society by using humor.
This is a story about a man who finds himself extremely happy one morning. As the story moves forward, the author depicts that there’s no such thing as a perfect life or perfect happiness, because happiness is a myth.
Through the example of the happy man, the author criticizes the demands of job that is put to an employees, in the story the happy man works as a writer at local newspaper. Apart from this, the other elements of society are also been criticized which includes death, and the politics.
