How is one writer's work both a natural product of and a departure from the ideas of a specific literary movement in American literature? Try to make it short if you can (20 points!)

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

What does"after getting my report card i knew it was time to hit the books mean

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