In "The feather pillow" by Horacio Quiroga when the parasites don't have a human to feed on they usually are small, they are parasites of feathered creatures. This parasite, in particular, has been feeding on Alicia's blood, that is why it became so monstrous. We learn about this in the last parragraph of the story.
Alliteration is the figurative language for those types of sentences
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The driver got whip ready to curl around Toby and tie him up. The slaveowner took his hip gun from its place.
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It should be D, though C does make sense as well. However, when I study Literature at school and I'm asked to use the active reading strategies, it's so that we can get a deeper analysis of the reading.