Read this sentence from the passage.
on december 24, 1783, immediately after resigning his commission before the continental congress meeting in annapolis, maryland, he rode like the wind in order to arrive at his beloved mount vernon in time for christmas.
what is the best meaning of "rode like the wind"?
a. traveled through high winds and terrible winter storms.
b. rode his horse very quickly.
c. enjoyed a leisurely ride home.
d. rode home in a carriage to stay out of the wind.

Rode his horse very quickly is the best meaning of "rode like the wind".

Explanation:

“Rode like the wind” literally means that he travelled in the speed of air. This is a metaphor where a live event is compared to a non-living event. Here the subject travels so fast that this event is compared to a scenario of wind travelling from place to place. This is not a simile or parallelism, because the given phrase is compared to a non-living element in this world.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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