Lines 169–172: What point is Fitzgerald trying to make by including the flash forward at this point in the narrative? In which sentence does Fitzgerald shift time to the present? What literary device does he use to do so?

we know that, volume of a rectangular prism is given by :

✿   {length × width × height}

given : the length of rectangular prism = 5.5

given : the width of rectangular prism = 6

given : the height of rectangular prism = 3

⇒ the volume of given rectangular prism = {5.5 × 6 × 3}

⇒ the volume of given rectangular prism = 99

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.

the chosen symbology is the 'sweet secret' which anna confesses on january 6th.

anne's thoughts on her mother are further indication of her growing maturity and of her feelings of isolation from her mother.

the homoeroticism of this passage led it to be excluded from early editions of the journal. this passage shows anne's simultaneous innocense about and fascination with sex. she's clearly aware and unafraid of being sexual, but at the same time is seemingly unaware that her homosexual feelings could be considered taboo back then.

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