Mrs. Bullfrog
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence from paragraph 4?

Such was my passionate warmth that--we had rattled out of the village, gentle reader, and were lonely as Adam and Eve in paradise--I plead guilty to no less freedom than a kiss.
A) allusion
B) consonance
C) hyperbole
D) irony

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.