Like a starving beast, the fire consumed the forest.
There is use of figurative language here indicated by the phrase starving beast. Fire is compared to a starving beast by use of simile.
1. Meaningful parts means words that make sense; words you can understand. Flagpole would become flag and pole.
2. What does flag mean? A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem. What does pole mean? A long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.
3. A symbolic cloth on a pole, or meant to be on a pole, would be called flagpole.
4. Use these steps and summarize them in your own words.
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Following Gatsby's death, Nick and Jordan have a famous phone call in which she chastises him and calls him dishonest. She adds that no one had ever left her the way he did and adds that he is a "careless driver". The Merton College Library is supposedly the place where Jay Gatsby got his education and that is why he calls himself and Oxford man.
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Xavier did not have control od the raft