“do you know mr. robert ferrars? " asked elinor.

"not at all—i never saw him; but i fancy he is very unlike his brother—silly and a great coxcomb."

"a great coxcomb! " repeated miss steele, whose ear had caught those words by a sudden pause in marianne’s music.— "oh, they are talking of their favourite beaux, i dare say.”

"i can answer for it that miss dashwood’s is not,’ said mrs. jennings, laughing heartily; ‘for he is one of the modestest, prettiest behaved young men i ever saw; but as for lucy, she is such a sly little creature, there is no finding out who she likes.” (sense and sensibility, chapter 24, pp. 18–19)

based on this excerpt, what does the term coxcomb most likely mean?

a man who is absurdly handsome
a man who is deeply admired by society
a foolish and irresponsible man devoted to nothing
a vain and conceited man devoted to style and neatness

a foolish and irresponsible man devoted to nothing

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

type of error:

the error in the sentence is a "dangling modifier". a dangling modifier is a phrase, word or clause that "dangles" because there is not target to modify. in this case, "after mopping the floor" is the dangling modifier since it has no word to modify. the noun "house" cannot mop the floor; therefore there is a mistake in the writing of the sentence.