By using as fast as it creates imagery that makes the reader believe he turn the light on as fast as he could. In a literal sense he didn’t figurative language is used to describe something in a fun way. (Or at least that’s how I remember it)
It is a tool that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Possibly, the word needed to fill the blank and complete the
sentence would be ‘overall’, which means the ‘added’ or the ‘totaled’ let’s say
score of a certain aspect. The sentence would be:
The overall combined score moved the competitor to the top of
the scoreboard.
The sentence means that the competitor or candidate, possibly
in a contest of example, sports have different scores and when added, the total
score put the person (the competitor) atop everyone else during the
competition.
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