The pressure is decreasing so there’s a possibility of a change to more unsettled weather
You're talking about the crucible right? Abigail Williams threatens the other girls because she wants the chaos of a witch hunt to ensue. If the girls spoke up, Abigail would be caught and John Proctor's wife Elizabeth would not have to pay for "stealing" John.
“Mr. Hands,” he said, “here are two of us with a brace of pistols each. If any one of you six make a signal of any description, that man's dead.”
Mr. Hands is kept at bay by Livesey's threats. This shows that the mutineers are cowardly individuals. They only seem courageous in big groups.
C is a simile.
Explanation: Similes have either “like” or “as” in them, used to compare two things. As C is te only one with “like” in it, it is the simile.
