Billy was considered a hero by the many people who had seen his courageous crime-fighting in action.
Both men use their past experiences to show readers that they persevered and became accomplished readers and writers.
Explanation:
From the first excerpt Thoughts and Sentiments, the author reveals his interest to write, read and learn and on perceiving his ability and interest his master sent him to a school to learn.
In the second excerpt, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, the author shares the happenings of his unlucky childhood and his fortunate latter part in which he have spent in the service of one of the best families in the kingdom.
Both the authors shows the readers their personal past experiences that they treasured in their heart.
The phrase "remembering the days when he would have gone outside" is describing the man. Participial phrases always have a participial, in this case remembering and have gone, and these phrases act like adjectives to describe the subject on the sentence. The answer is participial phrase.
The simile of Lines 18 through 23 compares the storm clouds that whip across the sky from the horizon to the zenith to: locks of hair of a frenzied woman. (Ode to the West Wind).
