Reread this sentence from paragraph 8:
The sky was as empty as a paper bag that has been
ransacked by squirrels, and my pain was increasing
rapidly.
Which of the following BEST explains how the authors
used figurative language to express a tone in this
sentence?
They used personification to
express a tone of wonder at the
vast, empty sky
They used a metaphor to express a
tone of amusement at the antics of
squirrels.
They used a simile to express a
tone of happiness for Edbird that
the sky was clear
They used a simile to express a
tone of sympathy for how alone
Edbird felt.

They used a simile to express a

tone of sympathy for how alone

Edbird felt.

Explanation:

They used a simile to express a tone of sympathy for how alone Edbird felt.

Explanation:

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" She works the seams of language through her mastery of rhetoric and poetic form. She extracts from words "amazing sense." Instead of merely referring to the experience of the writer, the poem is made to be an experience for the reader, which is precisely how she says she knows poetry in her famous remark to Higginson: "If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it.  Is there any other way"  

Explanation:

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