This is a simile meaning that something is very heavy and/or difficult to manage.
C. "While you finish your chores," said my older brother, "I will help fix your video game."
There there needs to be the comma inside of the quotation marks at the end of the sentence, yet the comma outside of the quotation marks when it is at the beginning of the phrase. There should also be quotation marks in front of the next quotation.
The suitors would plot to kill him
It says in your reading, so for someone to answer that we need to know the reading material.
