A backward glance at eighty 14) What is the primary purpose of this passage? A) To critique the farming traditions of America by giving an account of an especially hard life. B) To make a case for the ethics of a bygone age as opposed to the present one. To describe the details of the narrator's simple but happy childhood C) D) To give an account of the narrator's grandfather's life .

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the use of “as” in the example to draw the resemblance. some more examples of common similes are given below. common examples of simile. our soldiers are as brave as lions. her cheeks are red like a rose. he is as funny as a monkey. the water well was as dry as a bone. he is as cunning as a fox. simile introduces vividness into what we say.