The peasants came like swarms of flies And buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil one.
With candles and with lanterns
throwing giant scorpion shadows
on the mud - baked walls
they searched for him; he was not found
They clicked their tongues

1. Pick out the metaphor from the above lines

In this unit we learned about arguments and rhetoric. in an argument we use ,not informal language

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

What is the narrator's main conflict in this passage? a. he doesn't like someone mispronouncing his name. b. he has a history of beating up kids he doesn't like. c. he has a violent temper that he cannot control. d. he doesn't like "the kid" he mentions in the paragraph.