How to I annotate long passages quickly

I'd suggest going skimming through first with a few highlighters, colour coding so one colour's for metaphors, another's for key quotes, etc, with whatever you want. You can also just go through with one colour, highlighting different language techniques. Really just highlight whatever u want to get out of the text.

Once that's done, read the parts you've highlighted more thoroughly and make notes in the margins with a pen/pencil. Comment on structure and language, that kinda stuff. After u do one thorough reading, skim through again really quick and make any other notes u want to.

I think that's about it! hope this helped!

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".