I feel like people could control their own fate not too sure though
The correct answer is B. While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
Suffering, in Auden's (and old masters') view, is not a drastic case of the human condition. Auden doesn't single it out to depict it in its tragic magnificence. He puts it in the context of ordinary lives of people who mind their own business. It happens in circumstances that are most trivial for those other people. It seems that everyone is either ignorant or indifferent to another person's suffering.
Your answer would be 6.5. We can vertify this answer by multiplying 8 times 6.5.
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.
Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the end of the line.
Simile - "like a slackened drum"
Maybe even hyperbole, since it is an exaggeration.
