Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" by elie wiesel and answer the question. the survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim’s solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky. they needed to tell of the child who, in hiding with his mother, asked softly, very softly, "can i cry now? " they needed to tell of the sick beggar who, in a sealed cattle-car, began to sing as an offering to his companions. and of the little girl who, hugging her grandmother, whispered: "don’t be afraid, don’t be sorry to die … i’m not."
in the above excerpt wiesel is using what main literary device?
a) parable
b)simile and metaphor
c)sensory details
d)foreshadowing

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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