The meaning behind that simile is that ‘they’ are getting tons of gold like they were corn grains which if you’ve seen them, there’s a lot in just one corn. So basically those people were getting a lot of gold.
that would imply the fact that he made history with his LAWS of physics so the answer is LAW
The correct answer is C apostrophe and allusion. Because an allusion is the way of writing about something, yet not explaining it in vivid detail.
I would say that your answer would be D, as various hardships are mentioned when they said they tried to be peaceful.