They continued to ply at their usual occupations, some arriving full freighted into port, others sallying forth on new expeditions, like so many merchantmen in a money making metropolis, little suspicious of impending bankruptcy and downfall.

This sentence from the passage contains an example of a/an
A) hyperbole.
B) metaphor.
C) onomatopoeia.
D) simile.

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

answer; (external conflict)

the two sonnets of sidney most closely follows the division between the octave and the sestet are the astrophel and stella sonnets.

wallop

to hot or strike with a hand blow

explanation: