"The house felt like a ship at sea, battered by the gale that came roaring across the open marsh." This sentence includes which of the following literary devices?

"When I left the room and closed the door behind me and stood in the corridor again, the feelings dropped away from me like a garment that had been put over my shoulders for a short time and then removed again. I was back within my own person, my own emotions, I was myself again." To what does Arthur compare his emotions?

"I lunged out and grabbed the dog about the neck and hauled and strained and tugged with all the force I could, a strength I would never have dreamed I could have summoned up, born of terror and desperation; and after an agonizing time, when we both fought for our lives against the treacherous quicksand that tried to pull us both down into itself and I felt my grip on the slippery wet fur and wet flesh of the dog almost give, at last I knew that I would hold and win." This sentence shows life pitted against intractable nature. Which language choices emphasise life?

"I returned some four hours and thirty-odd miles later in a positive glow of well-being. I had ridden out determinedly across the countryside, seeing the very last traces of golden autumn merging into the beginnings of winter, feeling the rush of pure cold air on my face, banishing every nervous fear and morbid fancy by energetic physical activity." What is the effect of the word "banishing" here?

"All the previous week, we had had rain, chilling rain and a mist that lay low about the house and over the countryside. From the windows, the view stretched no farther than a yard or two down the garden. It was wretched weather, never seeming to come fully light, and raw, too. There had been no pleasure in walking, the visibility was too poor for any shooting and the dogs were permanently morose and muddy." This description of the weather shows that Arthur has been feeling how?

"Below us are pastures, interspersed with small clumps of mixed, broadleaf woodland. But at our backs for several square miles it is a quite different area of rough scrub and heathland, a patch of wildness in the midst of well-farmed country. We are but two miles from a good-sized town, seven from the principal market town, yet there is an air of remoteness and isolation which makes us feel ourselves to be much further from civilisation." Which of the following is correct?

"Nothing was more calculated to raise my spirits in anticipation of a treat to come than the sight of that great cavern of a railway station, glowing like the interior of a blacksmith's forge." What effect is created by the use of the word "cavern" here?

"On the causeway path it was still quite dry underfoot but to my left I saw that the water had begun to seep nearer, quite silent, quite slow. I wondered how deeply the path went under water when the tide was at height." Which words hint at the deadliness of the causeway?

"My story is almost done. There is only one last thing to tell. And that I can scarcely bring myself to write about." What effect is created by these three sentences?

"They asked for my story. I have told it. Enough." What might be meant by this ending of a single word? Choose the best answer.