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hello, miss/mr sandy burns, it may seem like your planning to build a very lard housing development near a lake that's used for fishing and swimming, i think what your doing is a great idea, but what would happen if the lake goes bad like, it has gutter, plastic, bags, etc, and it could cause alot of bacteria, so can you maybe think twice about this?
Answer: The dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
Explanation: This is a form of personification, because the sentence states that the tropical forest is pressing a thick warm blackness on the yacht. Personification is giving human like qualities to inanimate objects.
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I can't see the dialogue, but I believe it may mean it's a result of a certain action - it usually has a negative connotation. So likely a punishment / or a result of what someone did/said.
The illusion of justice and the assumption of mastery
