Advertisements everywhere, i haven’t time to think1
without some local merchant selling me the kitchen sink. 2

all along my childhood, it’s been exceedingly bad— 3
from my diapers to my schoolbooks, there’s always been an ad. 4

every show is brought to me by business courtesy; 5
every team i’ve been on has been sponsored for a fee. 6

doesn’t matter what it is, if i’m their demographic, 7
they add marshmallows! ‘til i think that i just have to have it. 8

i sing jingles when i read – their persistence is extreme! 9
i find ignoring messages to be a rough routine. 10

from getting up to lying down, the advertisements play, 11
but i’ve learned to lower volume and just to walk away. 12

future kids will probably find that our great civilization13
was easily told that they’d be sold the world’s next great sensation, 14

so kids like me have got to see that most ads are promotion15
designed to throw a lasso over human beings’ emotion, 16

but happiness cannot be found in catalogs or stores, 17
and the pleasure that they’re marketing may already be yours. 18

why does the speaker turn down the volume and walk away?
a) he hears and sees too many ads.
b) he does not like new things.
c) he does not want anything.
d) he thinks ads are dull.

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.

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.

the answer would be c