The colour "blue" denotes a suggestion of magic, whilst the simile shows people are drawn to his beautiful life of fun and riches. ... Myrtle has "an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering." ... Both Gatsby and Myrtle's energy are highlighted because of the Buchanan's lethargy, which is revealed in Daisy's inability to shape their future; "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? ... Willy is using language that suggests that his suicide would be a business deal, and would allow Biff a...

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• Grade Level: High School

These kind of prisons came to be workhouses for people who had lost all their belongings. ... In chapter one, Dickens uses metaphors and similes to describe the setting and atmosphere. ... Dickens goes on to describe his eyes as looking "so awfully hungry." ... When Magwitch tells Joe he has eaten his pie, Joe responds saying "God knows you"re welcome to it- so far as it was ever mine." ... When Magwitch returns, we are reminded of the weather conditions of the stormy marshes on their first meeting. ...

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Past tense is used in the written form. ... Symbols used in the epic are the Achaean ships; the shield of Achilles. ... Tense used in the epic is usually past, sometimes switching to present to increase the immediacy of a scene. Virgil also uses the future tense, for prophecy and prediction. ... They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. ...

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• Grade Level: High School