I would say the correct answer is <span>B) He feels tied to the land and to the weather in which he grew up. The speaker feels free and unrestrained when he is in the open, at night, with the moon lightening up so he can see the endless horizon clearly. When forced to go back into the house because the summer is over, he feels confined and depressed.</span>
The balloon rocketed into the sky. Though we were frightened, everything ended up being fine.
- The word "quickly" can be removed because speed is implied with the word "rocketed"
- The phrase "into the really cold air" can be removed because it is irrelevant to what's happening. It can be replaced by "into the sky"
- Now "up" can be removed because "into the sky" implies that the balloon went upwards.
- Either the word "scared" or "frightened" can be removed because they're synonyms (I chose to remove "scared")
- "Because it was moving really fast" can be removed because the use of the word "rocketed" beforehand already implies that the balloon was moving fast.
- Lastly , I just reworded and conjoined some of the sentences to make them read more clearly though this isn't necessary. (I changed the third sentence from "However, it was all good in the end," to "everything ended up being fine." I also combined the second and third sentences, adding "though" in front of the second sentence to make it a dependent clause)
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D) Chopin uses a simile to compare how quickly the
Aubigynys fall in love to a pistol shot.</span>
Similes are comparisons using the words “like” or “as” in
order to give readers a better sense of understanding when there may otherwise
be little understanding or not the understanding a writer wishes to convey.
What this means is that authors will compare something that may not be known to
readers to something that most likely will be known in order to present the
best image understood by the most readers. Because not everyone may have
the same perspective of just how quickly the Aubigynys fall in love, the use of
a simile would work well. As such, to describe something that might be
known to readers (a pistol shot) and compare that to the quickness of their
falling in love, the readers may begin to understand just how quickly they fall
in love.
