Read the excerpt from hemingway's a farewell to arms.
"it could not be worse,” passini said respectfully. “there is nothing worse than war."
“defeat is worse."
"i do not believe it," passini said still respectfully. "what is defeat? you go home.”
"they come after you. they take your home. they take your sisters."
the use of informal diction in a farewell to arms
robs the passage of having a deeper meaning.
• to maintain the realism of the dialogue.
lends an air of absurdity to the dialogue.
reduces the readability of the passage.

Why does the author introduce druse as lying in a “clump of laurel”? consider any symbolic or cultural meanings associated with this plant, and what significance it lends to this particular story. story "a horseman in the sky"

How did the industrial revolution shape the beliefs of the romantics

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.