The correct answer is <span>B. deceptiveness. Noah is actually a few years older than Oliver, or at least bigger and stronger. He picks on Oliver from the moment Oliver arrived at the coffin maker's workshop. And yet, when Oliver hits him for the first time, he pretends he's badly hurt. Dickens makes it clear that this is just a performance. </span>
Short sentences would create a fast pace
Meager means scarce, in that there was not much available for them to eat. Therefore, they were starving and desperate for the next town to stock up.
The sentences that use rhetorical devices are:
C) Outside, the torrential rain poured like a waterfall
E) Saving the orangutans is a Herculean task for conservationists.
The first sentence uses simile, and the second one a metaphor/allusion.
