Using force or trying to persuade someone through sarcasm or irony could be viewed as one of the worst ways to persuade someone into believing something you want to prove.
I believe that the answer to this question is:
Sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloinOr lambs, which haply some unheeding swainHath left to roam at large the mountains wild
This is because a simile uses the words like or as.
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I did play for theater and I roughly remember the plot but Ichabod Crane was made fun of often and looked on by others as “weird”. He was a school teacher trying to impress a pretty woman in the town. He was very afraid although he acted tough. He was merely afraid of his own footsteps at times. I think mostly explaining his character is good because that it basically the beginning plot haha
