Which sentence from the excerpt is a simile? Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. "I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!" Alice said at last. "It's a great huge game of chess that's being played all over the world—if this Is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I WISH I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join though of course I should LIKE to be a Queen, best." There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side... O The ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. O "I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!" Alice said at last. O "wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join- though of course I should LIKE to be a Queen, best."

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Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.

"I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!” Alice said at last. "It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this IS the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I WISH I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course, I should LIKE to be a Queen, best.”

Which sentence from the excerpt is a simile?

A. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side . . .

B. [T]he ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.

C. “I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!” Alice said at last.

D. “I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course, I should LIKE to be a Queen, best.”

B) [T]he ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.

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