Answer:
To convey that the students' education suppresses individual expression.
Explanation:
Charles Dickens’s novel "Hard Times" revolves around the people of England's Coketown where industrialization had taken over and people's lives were more monotonous than realistic. The satirical story deals with themes of society, industries, machines, facts, and fancy, etc.
In the description of the school's classroom scene from Chapter 1, the narrator reveals, <em>"The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a schoolroom"</em> which seems to suggest the idea that the student’s education does not encourage individual expression. The words <em>"plain, bare, monotonous"</em> presents a boring, dull image.
The right answer is A. In the first scene of Act 2, Brutus is wondering whether killing Caesar is the right course of action and he thinks that if Caesar were to be crowned it would "change his nature". Later on, he uses the metaphor of the ladder to represent the climb to power and says that once men have climbed all the way to the top, they have nothing but scorn towards everything below them: "But when he once attains the upmost round / He then unto the ladder turns his back / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend. So Caesar may."
Here we can see some unusual use of syntax, as the sentence doesn't follow the "normal" structure of SVO (subject, verb, object). In this case, the answer is the third option, it follows a verb (danced ... away)-object (the night)-subject (the excited party-goers) format. Thus clearly the remaining options cannot be applied here in this example.
Personification giving human qualities to a non-living thing (pencil) such as understood, promised, etc.
