The simile that uses the setting to emphasize the problem is "Spread despair like wildfire." This comparison highlights how quickly and broadly the effects of the drought and food scarcity have affected the land and the people within it, utilizing the setting of the dry rice paddies to emphasize the severity of the situation.
Read the passage from “The Invisible Red String” by Quen Law
With the exception of the slight rustling of dried stalks where the rice had once grown in the spring, the silence was as oppressive as the lump Ju-Lin felt in her throat. She gazed at the parched rice paddies and wondered when she had last seen a raindrop. The severe drought had dried all the crops and spread despair across the land like wildfire. Now, it had suddenly taken on an even more ominous meaning, for Ju-Lin had felt her world come to a crashing halt with her father’s words moments earlier.
“Ju-Lin,” her father had said that evening, “the time I dread has come. There is so little food left that even the crickets have failed to chirp.”
Which simile uses the setting to emphasize the problem?
(2 points)
Responses
“World come crashing to a halt”
“World come crashing to a halt”
“Spread despair like wildfire”
“Spread despair like wildfire”
“Slight rustling of dried stalks”
“Slight rustling of dried stalks”
“Even the crickets have failed to chirp"
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