Question

Reread the following quotation from paragraph 9: we were conducted immediately to the merchant yard where we were all pent up together like so many sheep in a fold without regard to sex or age. How does the author use of figurative language here contributed to the central idea of the text.

Answer 1

The author compares their cramped situation to that of sheeps in a fold; how so many of them were stuffed together without a second thought, regardless of age and sexual identity.