Identify the figurative language in the text and explain the meaning and significance of the figurative language. What does it reveal about the narrator's attitude? What is the narrator really trying to say?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

Ce some of your french crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play bare-faced. but, masters, here are your parts: and i am to entreat you, request you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and our devices known. in the meantime i will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. i pray you, fail me not. who is quince making fun of in this speech?

"as patricia rolled her eyes, dave stared at her, trying to discern whether she'd been lying. ' that stuff about the sleepwalking. was true? ' 'oh yeah,' carlos said, shaking his head. 'whole town seems to be coming down with it.' he paused. 'you're not scared of the dark, are you? ' what feeling does the author create by ending the story with this question