What is suggested by the phrase, 'her tears softened him in the excerpt below? “Then she grieved sorely at her misfortune, and said she would give him all the wealth
of the kingdom if he would let her off, but in vain; till at last her tears softened him, and
he said, "I will give you three days' grace, and if during that time you tell me my name,
you shall keep your child."

A) The queen wanted to trick the little man.

B) The little man was moved with compassion.

C) The little man was afraid of angering the king.

D)The queen's child was already gone.

b. Compassion

Explanation: the man saw that the queen was upset (tears) and responded with empathy to her distress.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.