It's answers A. and C. Hope this helps :)
Lost a fight but won the war it don’t matter who loses it’s about who wins
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
since a simile is where you compare 2 things i imagine the similie would be somwhere were he is talking about the maple tree. "before your could say jack robbison they have gone and grown alot bigger than you ever thought they could"
i had some trouble looking for it and thats all that makes sense for the similie i belive.
I don’t know because I don’t see any passage or story to your answer, can you tell me the name of the book or story so I can look up the book
Answer:
D) I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships,
Explanation:
This line supports the idea that Odysseus cares for his men, because although it would have been much easier to leave those who ate the Lotus behind, Odysseus insisted on dragging them back to the ship with him, because he couldn't bear the thought of leaving his men behind when there is still a way to save them.