Chorus leader: ismene’s coming. there—right by the door. she’s crying. how she must love her sister! from her forehead a cloud casts its shadow down across her darkly flushing face— and drops its rain onto her lovely cheeks. explain how the figurative language in the passage reveals ismene’s character, reveals the chorus leader’s tone, and influences the mood of the audience

The figurative language in this passage reveals Ismene's character as a lovely and protective character capable of performing empathy. The chorus Leader's ton is revealed as a romantic, comparative and simile narrator. To awaken a sad, empathic, and lovely moment.

Explanation:

First of all, we need to understand something, the author or narrator in this case called "chorus leader" describes the scene with a romantic and sad tone using stylistic devices that would allow us to picture the characters and their actions recalling natural elements. Also, this is an attempt to identify the description of elements of easy access to people. In an attempt to understand the chorus leader's perception. We see that Ismene is a protective, lovely, and emotional character that suffers after watching the other character. The chorus leader then creates a sad scenario filled with fraternal love.

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).