The figurative language used in the excerpt is a simile. It adds to the characterization because it compares <span>the mother as a calm/silent person.
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This is an opinionated question but I personally get stressed at baseball games because of the noise and the cramped space. And the threat of having a baseball thrown at your head.
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Answer: The correct option is A (Tom seems to be a white supremacist who is afraid of losing his livelihood to minority groups.)
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Answer: The correct option is B (Tom has a mistress.)
<h3><u>Question 6:</u></h3>
Answer: The correct statement is 4 (‘She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time. Don’t you think?’)
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Question 7:</u></h3>
Answer: The correct option is D (Owner of a run-down auto shop)
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Question 8:</u></h3>
Answer: The correct option is C (informed about something secret or not generally known)
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Question 9:</u></h3>
Answer: The correct option is C (An ancient eye doctor whose advertisement still stands in the Valley of Ashes)
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Question 10:</u></h3>
Answer: The correct option is A (God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland)
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Answer: The correct option is A (a mild rebuke or criticism)
I believe this an example of complex sentence structure.
My reasoning is that most of these sentences are in fact compound complex sentences-
Compound-complex sentences contain two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
An example of a complex sentence is this: “I burned dinner but not the cake.”