Identify whether each quote is a simile, metaphor, or personification. “We suffered all kinds of disease in our youth, but folks were sensible. They didn’t squall like children and hide in the woods”
“I’m going to climb the church tower and cut the tongues out of those bells myself”
“The bright sun blinded me as I stepped outside”
“They say bodies are piling up like firewood”
“We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister’s benediction”
“We have no cause to run out of the city like children scared by a ghost”
“...her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow…”
“A slight breeze waltzed through the room”

2nd option

explanation:

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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i don't know sorry i cannot read a novel in 30 min.

explanation:

but just in case i think the answer is b.

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !