Draw Conclusions Identify the similes and metaphors in lines 107-122. Think about what Dillard is describing in this paragraph. What function does this figurative
language fulfill?
"I missed my chance. I should have gone for the throat. I should have lunged for that streak of white under the
weasel's chin and held on, held on through mud and into the wild rose, held on for a dearer life. We could live
under the wild rose as weasels, mute and uncomprehending. I could very calmly go wild. I could live two days
in the den, curled, leaning on mouse fur, sniffing bird bones, blinking, licking, breathing musk, my hair tangled
in the roots of grasses. Down is a good place to go, where the mind is single. Down is out, out of your ever-
loving mind and back to your careless senses. I remember muteness as a prolonged and giddy fast, where
every moment is a feast of utterance received. Time and events are merely poured, unremarked, and ingested
directly, like blood pulsed into my gut through a jugular vein. Could two live that way? Could two live under
the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other,
and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"

Read the excerpts from "the royal house of thebes" and "the story of a warrior queen." "we are women," she told her sister. "we must obey. we have no strength to defy the state." "choose your own part," antigone said. "i go to bury the brother i love." "you are not strong enough," ismene cried. "why, then when my strength fails," antigone answered, "i will give up." she left her sister; ismene dared not follow her. —"the royal house of thebes" again and again the romans were defeated, till it almost seemed as if the britons really would succeed in driving them out of the country. boadicea herself led the soldiers, encouraging them with her brave words. "it is better to die with honor than to live in slavery," she said. "i am a woman, but i would rather die than yield. will you follow me, men? " and of course the men followed her gladly. —"the story of a warrior queen" how are the archetypes presented in these two passages different? the first passage shows antigone as a warrior, and the second passage shows boadicea as a tragic heroine. the first passage shows antigone as a tragic heroine, and the second passage shows boadicea as a sage. the first passage shows antigone as a rebel, and the second passage shows boadicea as a warrior. the first passage shows antigone as a villain, and the second passage shows boadicea as a sage.