“You ask me to forget it and muck around in this slow dance of death with you.” What does the slow dance of death in the sentence mean? And is this a metaphor?

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

Which event in chapter 3 seems like it will be the climax of mice and men

What is frankensteins main goal after he sees the monster for the first time