Which sentence most clearly makes use of metaphor, rather than personification or simile?
A. Sliding down the snowy hill, I struck a rock and my sled rejected
me.
B. Gina's boss is as vicious as a boa constrictor and as cunning as a
spider.
C. Hurricanes assault the coast every few years, punishing us
homeowners.
D. As our trusted leader, you are the glue that holds this team
together.

what passage are you referring to

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

which lines in this excerpt from act i of shakespeare's romeo and juliet suggest that lord capulet respects free will?