"princess penelope was head over heels for prince patrick, and she had finally
persuaded her father to allow her to attend the annual royal ball. she could hardly
waik. upon hearing the news, penelope had sprinted like a cheetah all the way down
to the royal dress shop to pick out the perfect dress."
according to the simile used in the third sentence of this passage, how did the
princess run to the dress shop?
sluggishly
merrily
swiftly
despairingly

C. Swiftly

Explanation:

The simile in sentence three is "Penelope sprinted like a cheetah." Well we already know that a simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things, by using the words "like" or "as". In this example, the narrator compares Penelope's speed, to the speed of a Cheetah. Cheetah's are generally very fast. The definition of sluggish, is slow moving or inactive. The definition of merrily, is in a cheerful way. And the definition of despairingly, is to have absence of hope. We can use these definitions, and context clues from the text to figure out that swiftly, is in fact the correct answer.

the simple predicate of the sentence is camped.