Question
Which three words or phrases in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" compare the fish to an old, experienced soldier?
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"His brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age."
1. Ancient wallpaper
2. Shapes like full-blown roses
3. Lost through age
and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age."
1. Ancient wallpaper
2. Shapes like full-blown roses
3. Lost through age