Answer: adjective
Explanation:
The word "fast" is an adjective because it describes a noun. (adverbs describe verbs)
A metaphor is a comparison between two things without using the words "like" or "as" (which would make it a simile). In this paragraph, the cyclops is compared to a large mountain. The effect of the metaphor is thus 1) to make a comparison and 2) to give the reader a visual image of the cyclops as a huge entity.
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language.
