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3 years ago

According to Tolstoy, what is terrible about a simple and ordinary life in the novel The Death of Ivan Ilyich?

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nikklg [1K]3 years ago

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There is a famous phrase in The Death of Ivan Ilych that says:

"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."

Tolstoy thinks Ivan's life had been the most terrible because it lacked meaningful goals and deep connections to people. Ivan lived in the way that society deemed acceptable and admirable, which means that he was dominated by ambition, social status, and the desire to always achieve more and want more in order to be better than others. His only goals in life were to climb the social ladder and tolerate his unhappy marriage. His social relations were not built for meaningful reasons. Instead, they were a consequence of social convention. All of these reasons blinded him to the important things in life, making his life terrible.

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Write an essay on " How Mobile Phone has changed our lives ".

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Cell phones have changed everyone’s lives since the 1980’s. Some of the cell phones we have today have internet so we can use them both, for work and for play. This is more than half of the time we spend. Cell phones change lives in a bad way because we become attached to them. They affect grammar and listening.

The apple company has come out with so many new apple products. That include about five different iphones. So many teens have the iphones now that everyone has been getting them. Having the iphone also helps kids to fit in. Even kids under thirteen have cell phones and text with them 24/7.

In some public schools kids use them during class and don’t even get in trouble. Even some teachers in public schools text during class or talk on the phone. So even adults are obsessed with their phones. If schools don’t take phones before school starts, then kids are going to think they can use their phones whenever they want. Teenagers are probably way more obsessed with their cell phones than adults though.

Cell phones also help us in a good way though. We are more connected with people than people back in the days were. If we want to talk to somebody we can just call them. When we’re out and we need to call our parents we can call them without having to use a friend’s phone and embarrassing yourself. Plus if we want to go somewhere we can call or text for a ride so we can also connect for travel easier too.

Cell phones are both good and bad for everyone. If we use them all day, everyday then thats a bad thing. If we use them for work or connection thats a good thing. We can use cell phones for many reasons. Cell phones can change everyone’s lives.

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Where would you look to find weather information for farmers? dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, almanac, phone book

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almanac

Explanation:

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The effects which the foreshadowing in Friar Laurence’s warning to Romeo have are:

A. It keeps the audience engaged in the plot by suggesting more potential conflict in the story.
C. It creates suspense as the reader wonders why Friar Laurence would utter this warning.
E. It provides a clue that something tragic will happen to the lovers later as the story progresses.

<h3>What is Foreshadowing?</h3>

This refers to the use of hints and clues to give an idea about what would happen in the future in a story.

Hence, we can see that from the complete question, there is the narration of the potential conflict that is suggested based on the warnings of Friar Laurence and the other effects of foreshadowing are shown in options A, C and E.

Read more about foreshadowing here:

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Separate the figurative language from the literal

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The figurative language is the part where the meaning is made apparent indirectly while the literal is where what is said is meant that way.

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Figurative Language

"Thin as a soda straw the slate pencil was

wrapped in red, white and green paper, the colors

spiraled as on a barber's pole."

Here, we can see that there is a use of simile and metaphors to compare the pencil to a soda straw to show how thin it is and to show that the colors spiraled which does not happen in real.

Literal Language

'The slate was set in a wooden frame decorated with

red and green stripes. In one corner there was a small

hole in the frame for the string to which the slate pencil

was tied. '

This passage is informational and literal.

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