1. Beginning
2. I'm not sure, maybe to give rhythm to the sentence.
However. I think yes hope it helps
Same, but with the girl for that new movie everything everything. So now they just call me maddie or madds. BUT THATS NOT ME NAME
A simile is a comparison of one thing to another, for example "smart as a fox".
The only comparison to something else that I find in the lines above is "like the rusty latch" - and this is a simile. The correct answer is then a) .
He's using middle English language, and as we read the excerpt, we see that he is speaking more formal