After painting all day, Josh took a break to relax.
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Nila, a young girl of 14 is a student of class 9 of 'X' school. She was a poor girl but had an aspiration to help her family for a better life. On her way to school, a boy named Alam used to tease her very often but she didn't get frustrated rather she walked on quickly to school.
Alam ran after her and pulled her roughly and asked her where she was running to, Nila was scared and told him that she was going to school. Alam started laughing and told her to go to school, when she comes back, he'll continue teasing her.
People don't have feathers so D is not an option. Alliteration is the repetition of the same beginning sound in a group of words so that also is not an option. Simile uses like or as - not an option. Metaphor is a comparison of two different things, hope to a bird (thing with feathers). B is correct.
True a gerund can be the object of a preposition
