Read this sentence from chapter 17 and answer the question. okonkwo was popularly called the "roaring flame." as he looked into the log fire he recalled the name. he was a flaming fire. how then could he have begotten a son like nwoye, degenerate and he sighed heavily, and as if in sympathy the smoldering log also sighed. and immediately okonkwo's eyes were opened and he saw the whole matter clearly. living fire begets cold, impotent ash. he sighed again, deeply. what is the author’s main purpose in using figurative language in this excerpt? to imply okonkwo’s thoughts indirectlyto explain a folktaleto avoid going into a long explanation about the father-son dynamics of okonkwo and nwoyeto entertain by using symbols and metaphors

Ineed advice. i have a lot of friends at school but recently my best friend for some reason didn’t like our friend group. she wanted to switch to a new table during lunch. she said she found a new table where we would be welcomed if i wanted to come. i agreed because i knew i would continue to talk to them outside of lunch. after a month or two, my best friend got mad at our new lunch table group. so she left for a day or two, but i stayed because i actually kinda liked it there, even if it was kinda crazy. then she came back to the table. eventually i started to miss my old friends at my old lunch table. so i went over there for one lunch. then after lunch i sat at my new lunch spot before the bell rang. they all called me a traitor. so now i sit with my old lunch group, which is fine because i missed them, but i also miss my new, now old, lunch table. what should i do? p. s. sorry if you loose your last brain cells trying to understand this.

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man