It is relatively easy to spot a gerund, given that it looks like a verb + ing. Having that in mind, the gerund here is drinking from the tap. This gerund acts as the subject of the sentence, which you can easily determine by asking the question What is perfectly safe?, and the answer will be Drinking from the tap - that's how you know it is the subject.
So, the correct answer is drinking from the tap/subject.
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Little princesses who find a happy life after a long struggle of hardship in life
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A: the narrator gazing to the moon and the stars.
Explanation:
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The simile there is found in lines 93 and 94:
And <u>as</u> a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,
Explanation:
The writer Oliver Goldsmith likens the subject to one who returns exasperated to a location, place from where it once fled in a hurry.
The keywords there are highlighted above. Recall that a simile is a literary device wherein two subjects, two objects or an object and a subject are compared to each other using the word "as".
Similes can also be created using words such as "like", "so", "or" than".
An example of a very simple simile is:
<em>James is as sturdy as a rock.</em>
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