No,It may be helpful but most time you won't understand what you read. It's better to slowly read and understand you're passage.
B. The sentence that has an error in usage is the following one: Sometimes being a man simply means helping others bare their difficult burdens. The word "bare" in this sentence should be the word "bear" which means "to help endure or carry."
The way an author writes (includes punctuation/capitalization, stanza and line length, figurative language, and sound devices)idiom<span>an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words (type of fig. lang)</span>