It is a simile. It is comparing the police protecting a bus to a gradener protecting his/her plants from a storm.
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The unscrambled word is newscast.
D because the author is describing the scene from the bats point of view vividly
Answer:
Preposition: on Prepositional phrase: on both hands
Explanation:
On is a preposition and since verbs (dust, slip) can't be in prepositional phrase, the prepositional phrase goes no further than hands.