It's like fill in the brackets: he'd laughed. (speak)i think the answer might be: before the speak, he'd laughed. or maybe: before speaking, he'd laughed. although the second one is wrong grammaticly. what do you think?

b)metaphor

explanation:

when reading the sentence carefully it says,"hope is a thing with feathers" it's like saying: hope is a thing like feathers

get what i'm saying? instead of using a smilie like or as they use "with"

it would be nice enough if i got .

why were the wolves chased out of yellowstone nation park?