“the arrow sped down the glade as a sparrowhawk skims in a northern wind” is an example of: a. hyperbole b. metaphor c. simile d. symbol

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Answer - Simile

The reason its a simile is because the fact that simile's have like or as in the sentence and this sentence does.

“The arrow sped down the glade as a sparrowhawk skims in a northern wind”

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the correct answer is c. he speculates on what might happen at given points in the future in a world without people. alan h. weisman is an american author, professor, and journalist. authors organize their information with a purpose. they present their ideas in an organized way. this is called text structure. weisman uses text structure so as to improve overall comprehension and to prove his points.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.