Question

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read the following excerpt from Mrs. Drainger's Veil by Howard Mumford Jones: Emily, of course, had changed. She met me at the door as she met you. She was a shell burned out by one fierce moment of fire. The figurative language used in the excerpt is . It helps us infer that Emily is .

Answer 1

"The figurative language used in the excerpt is a metaphor. It supports us understand that she is angry.

We can easily say it is a metaphor because Emily didn't completely cook out by one devastating time of the fire.

The metaphor came here just to show some strong emotional word choices like the fire and fierce which is commonly used to describe the anger."