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The question is from "The Cactus" by O. Henry. Trysdale is the main character in the story. There are two other characters, a woman Trysdale proposes to and the woman's brother who is also Trysdale's friend.
Explanation:
The Cactus by O. Henry is a story about how ego, hubris and dishonesty get in the way of one's happiness. The story is set in Trysdale’s drawing room after the marriage ceremony of this girl was over and the scent of the huge bunches of flowers piled in the church was still haunting him.
Trysdale, a young man, noble, wealthy and cultured, realizes that his girl friend is excessively devoted to him and sort of worships him. <em>‘She had always insisted on placing him upon a pedestal, and he had accepted her homage with royal dignity’. </em>
Ultimately the day comes when Trysdale proposes to her. The girl is absolutely delighted at the proposal but shyly and modestly replies that she'll think about it. Trysdale eagerly waits for her answer. The next day, he receives a cactus with a tag in Spanish. Without trying to understand what it meant, he perceives this as rejection.
Now, as Trysdale returns from his ex-girlfriend's wedding, he is filled with bitterness. Trysdale was deeply distressed and looked unhappy. His friend, the bride's brother, coincidentally finds the tag on the cactus and tells him that the word on the tag was a common Spanish word that translated to the phrase, <em>"Come and take me."</em>
Trysdale now realizes his fault at ignoring the tag. He remembers lying to his girlfriend that he was fluent in Spanish whereas all his Spanish was mugged up from hackneyed Spanish phrases which he often learnt from the dictionaries and used them only to show off. Trysdale realizes that his dishonesty about the Spanish and his ego in not understanding the tag had cost him his happiness.
Option a. comparison
Metaphor refers to something as being the same as another thing for rhetorical effects.
- provide clarity / identity hidden similarities between 2 ideas compare to and convey an understanding.
Write about a good experience you've had recently and how that experience was special to you, include a message in it. Half a page to a page should do. After you're done looking over it, make that message in your story that you want to convey the theme and the reasons behind it. I can't write this for you since I don't know who you are, but you know who you are.
Answer:
Explanation: People moved to the area because they might be ready for change and want something different
Answer:
The correct answer is “jest,” because this is a teasing conversation
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Explanation:
In this scene there is a pleasant and joking atmosphere between Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio.
They are joking and Romeo accuses Mercutio that he is only good to joke, and he tells him that for that joke he is going to bite him in the ear (since he was comparing him to a goose).
Even Mercutio acknowledges that joking is better than being bad for love. Let's see this quote:
<em>"Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable. Now art thou Romeo."</em>
