There are only three articles in the English language. One is definite, and two are indefinite. "The" is a definite article, while "a" and "an" are indefinite articles. To answer your question, you need to find the sentence that correctly uses "a" and "an". "A" is used if the word following it begins with a consonant, while "an" is used if the word following it begins with a vowel. Looking at the options provided in your particular problem, you can see that answer choice a is the only one that follows all of the above rules, making it the correct answer.
There really isn't one place to find either it is easier to read the book and put it in your own words
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It looks like a simile is used, "dry as a biscuit,". It's comparing how dry something is to how dry a biscuit is.
I'm not sure about the rest, because I don't have context clues, but it looks like that's the only figurative language.