Suppose someone in a peer review group says this about a story's main character:

Symbolically, what's significant about young Gary's sticky face, dirty fingers, and desire to find some water toward the end of

nasty-shy [4]

This question is incomplete, here´s the complete question.

Read "The Pie", by Gary Soto.

Symbolically, what's significant about young Gary's sticky face, dirty fingers, and desire to find some water toward the end of the story?

Answer:

Gary's sticky face and dirty fingers symbolize the guilt he feels for the sin he committed (dirty hands represent guilt for wrongdoing).

His desire for water represents his guilt as he wants to wash his sin away.

Explanation:

Soto's stealing the pie signifies his loss of innocence.

The theme of the story is that, if we have a conscience, stealing will make us feel guilty.

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Daedalus personal challenges

PtichkaEL [24]

Daedalus is the father of icarus and is really famous for his crafting skills.

His personal challenges are :
- He is reckless. He often invent things without proper judgement that put other people's live in danger
- He is hostile
- Another personal challenge of him is that he wanted to escape the island of crete

hope this helps

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Which descriptive details from the text best help the reader visualize the specific early Victorian tea set that is the central

iogann1982 [59]

I believe you are referring to this text:

In the eighteenth century Josiah Wedgwood had made some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics – in jasper and basalt – in Britain, but this tea set shows that by the 1840s, when Wedgwood produced it, the company was aiming at a much wider market. This is quite clearly mid-range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest British households were then able to afford. But the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver.

From the text, the descriptive detail that best aids the reader to visualize the central topic which is a specific early Victorian tea set is "some of the most expensive stoneware".

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Which two lines in this excerpt from the poem "Consumption" by William Cullen Bryant reflect the theme of the poem? (The word co

lozanna [386]

“Consumption” by William Cullen Bryant describes the imminent death of a tuberculosis patient and her way to heaven.

The poem starts with the speaker describing the imminent death of the person to whom this poem is spoken. She is going “for the grave,” really shortly and there is nothing she can do about it. He knows that her death is close because of the light in her eyes. It is so bright he knows there’s no way it can continue for long. No one can maintain that level of brightness.

He continues on to tell her, hoping to make her see the hopelessness of her situation, and turn her to God, that there is no medicine either from the fields or minerals that can save her. She will be better off if she commits herself to God’s hands at this point.

The speaker’s tone softens when he turns to describing how she will leave for heaven. It will not be harsh, painful or in any way disturbing. God and “Death” will take her as a bud is broken from a branch by the wind.

In the final lines he asks her to “Gently” close her eyes and remember that God will see him, and all those who care about her, come together in heaven.

This is the poem:

Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine

Too brightly to shine long; another Spring

Shall deck her for men’s eyes—but not for thine—

Sealed in a sleep which knows no wakening.

The fields for thee have no medicinal leaf,

And the vexed ore no mineral of power;

And they who love thee wait in anxious grief

Till the slow plague shall bring the final hour.

Glide softly to thy rest then; Death should come

Gently, to one of gentle mould like thee,

As light winds wandering through groves of bloom

Detach the delicate blossom from the tree.

Close thy sweet eyes, calmly, and without pain;

And we will trust in God to see thee yet again.

The theme of the Poem is the inevitability of being consumed by Death, and the lines that best reflect that theme are:

Glide softly to thy rest then; Death should come 

Gently, to one of gentle mould like thee, 

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What are some examples of the use of figurative language in “Tribute to a Dog”? What is the impact of figurative words and phras

Yuliya22 [10]

Figurative language is one of the most important elements of any literary texts. It's like the spice and seasoning of a dish, it gives taste to it.

"A Tribute to a Dog" is a speech made by Senator George Graham Vest as his closing argument for his client's dog shot and killed by his neighbor. Some examples of the figurative language used in the text are the following: 
♣ He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master’s side. (Personification)
♣ The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. (Personification)
♣ A man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness (Hyperbole)
♣ He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. (Metaphor)
♣ He is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey to the heavens. (Simile)
These are just a few of the figurative languages used in the text, there' still more. But these ones give more impact to the whole text. It makes it more convincing and meaningful. For sure because of this speech, his side won the case.

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