Someone please help I will give brainlist hlp Read the paragraph and find any use of figurative language or connotative. How does does this affect the overall text.

Wounded as he was, It was wonderful how fast he could move, his grizzled halr tumbling over his face, and his face
Itself as red as a red ensign with his haste and fury. I had no time to try my other pistol, nor Indeed much inclination,
for I was sure it would be useless. One thing I saw plainly: I must not simply retreat before him, or he would
speedily hold me boxed into the bows, as a moment since he had so nearly boxed me in the stem. Once so caught
and nine or ten inches of the blood-stained dirk would be my last experience on this side of etemity. I placed my
palms against the main-mast, which was of a goodish bigness, and waited, every nerve upon the stretch