Who was a key influence in tolkien's love of books and learning?

a. his grammar school teacher

b. his mother

c. the local librarian

d. his uncle

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism