Answer:
A literary or contextual symbol can be a setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else that maintains literal significance
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.
Convey means to show, demonstrate, express something
<span>The underlined words are impetuous,
barbarously, impious, and preposterous.</span>
<span>In the
given sentences, these words match the following contextual meanings because of
how they used in the sentences:</span>
Impetuous - rapid and powerful<span>
barbarously - coarse and uncivilized
impious - disrespectful, irreverent
preposterous - absurd, unreasonable </span>
I believe the group of people was called the Anglo-Saxon. Hope this helps!