What factors made it difficult for slaves to run away from their masters?

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.

Which of the following events of the story actual occurs first in the sequence of events

How did rick respond to this conflict