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Which of the following passages from "the jilting of granny weatherall" show imagery? a. dark colors with the shadows rising towards the ceiling in long angles. b. she tried to remember. no, i swear he never harmed me but in that. c. she was strong, in three days she would be as well as ever. d. nonsense. it was strange about children. they disputed your every word.

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Answer from: braydentillery1221

The answer is in fact A.

Answer from: bri2728

The passage from "the jilting of granny Weatherall" that show imagery is A. dark colors with the shadows rising towards the ceiling in long angles.

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Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. It evokes the senses it could be through ear, sight, smell, touch or taste.

Answer from: Quest

Idont get it at all sorry

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#1: what is the simile that occurs in lines 43-47 (below)? give exact words for just the simile. #2: explain what frost means by this comparison.

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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