Question

Read the excerpt from The Secret Garden:

“Why does it make you angry when you are looked at?” she inquired one day.

“I always hated it,” he answered, “even when I was very little. Then when they took me to the seaside, and I used to lie in my carriage everybody used to stare and ladies would stop and talk to my nurse, and then they would begin to whisper, and I knew then they were saying I shouldn’t live to grow up. Then sometimes the ladies would pat my cheeks and say ‘Poor child!’ Once when a lady did that I screamed out loud and bit her hand. She was so frightened she ran away.”

“She thought you had gone mad like a dog,” said Mary, not at all admiringly.

“I don’t care what she thought,” said Colin, frowning.

What is the meaning of the figurative language “mad like a dog”?

out of control

dreadfully sad

righteously angry

having strong instincts

Answer 1

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The answer is A. Out of control.

Here are the context clues....

1st Context Clue

"'Poor child!' Once a lady did that I screamed out loud and bit her hand. She was so frightened she ran away."

2nd Context Clue

"She thought you had gone mad like a dog." said Mary, not at all admiringly.

Meanings

• Gone mad means to go insane.

• Biting someone's hand is not a good thing to do.

With that information...

We can come to a conclusion that the right choice would be A. Out of control.

Also, The Secret Garden is a good book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, I have read the whole book and would recommend it to others.