Read the sentence. after the literature exam, i felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. which word from the sentence is an example of figurative language?

Weight

Explanation:

"a huge weight had been lifted", Weight's cannot lift themselves

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the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

explanation:

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.