Chronological order. Hope this helps!
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
since a simile is where you compare 2 things i imagine the similie would be somwhere were he is talking about the maple tree. "before your could say jack robbison they have gone and grown alot bigger than you ever thought they could"
i had some trouble looking for it and thats all that makes sense for the similie i belive.
B) Lily is confident that Margaret can ride, but Mr. Connolly disagrees because she is a girl.
C. I found a bag of marbles.
This is the only sentence that contains an indefinite article. Indefinite articles are "a" and "an" for singular nouns. "some" is the indefinite article used for plural or uncountable nouns.
"the" is a definite article.
Cybernaut. (A person who uses Internet a lot).