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Why is Mme Loisel unhappy when she receives an invitation to an evening reception in "The Necklace"?
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The simple answer is that Madame Loisel is upset that she does not have anything to wear that is worthy of the occasion. More noteworthy still is how she reacts to the invitation, showing complete contempt and disregard for the efforts of her husband to secure the invitation for her.
Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering:
"What do you wish me to do with that?"
There is much more to Mathilde's reaction than just the fact that she has nothing to wear. Mathilde is a self-absorbed woman who feels that she is entitled to all the good things in life, despite of the fact that she has done nothing to earn them, nor has she ever come from money, in the first place.
When she says that she has nothing to wear, she does not say this with the humbleness that distinguishes a good woman of limited means. Instead, she uses sarcasm and haughtiness, as if demanding from her husband--or from life itself--that she gets those things.
She even goes as far as telling her husband that 400 francs would do for a new dress (which she is only going to wear once), so she took the savings that he had put aside for a hunting trip to buy the dress. More importantly for Mathilde was the jewelry to wear. Since she had none, she had to resort to her rich friend, Madame Forestier, who lends her the necklace for which the story is titled: a necklace that gets lost, and whose replacement will cost Mathilde her entire life.
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It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. “How happy we are here!” they cried to each other.
One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.
“What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.
Which paragraphs include dialogue?
1 and 4
2 and 3
1 and 3
2 and 4
The dialogs are shown in paragraphs 2 and 4.
With that, we can say that the last answer option is the correct answer.
We can define the term dialogue as follows:
When characters in a story are talking or conversing, the sentence is marked with quotation marks ("") that signal that the character is communicating.
In this case, we can see that, in the text presented in the question above, there are dialogues in the second and fourth paragraph, as it is in these paragraphs that the characters communicate.
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the correct answer is D
Step-by-stepexplanation
the paragraphs that include dialogue are paragraphs two and four
Gandalf says he will be sending Bilbo on an adventure.
O Gandalf demands an invitation to tea the following week,
Gandalf scratches a mark on Bilbo's door.
Bilbo was startled by Gandalf's first visit because B. Gandalf says he will be sending Bilbo on an adventure.
It should be noted that in the story, Bilbo loved the life that he was living and was not prepared for any change or adventure.
Bilbo was not startled by Gandalf's first visit because Gandalf sets off fireworks in Bilbo's meadow or due to the fact that Gandalf demanded an invitation to tea the following week. He was afraid because he didn't want to go on any adventure.
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Gandalf says he will be sending Bilbo on an adventure.
Explanation:
Oh! I love this book! Are you reading this with your class? Anyway, Bilbo is used to his normal ordinary life and loves it. He does not want to go on an adventure because he likes his life and likes everything normal.
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B. Simile
Explanation:
The correct answer is simile.
Simile is a figure of speech which compares things together with the use of "as" and "like". Metaphor is its opposite which compares things without the use of "as" and "like".
In the given sentence, we see that the individual compared himself like bleachers.
Therefore, the answer is simile.