Question

Read "The Cricket Sang" by Emily Dickinson. Use the poem to answer the question.


The cricket sang,

And set the sun,

And workmen finished, one by one,

Their seam the day upon.

The low grass loaded with the dew,

The twilight stood as strangers do

With hat in hand, polite and new,

To stay as if, or go.

A vastness, as a neighbor, came,—

A wisdom without face or name,

A peace, as hemispheres at home,—

And so the night became.



Which of the following lines from the poem above uses simile?

(2 points)
Responses

To stay as if, or go.
To stay as if, or go.

With hat in hand, polite and new,
With hat in hand, polite and new,

The cricket sang,
The cricket sang,

The twilight stood as strangers do
The twilight stood as strangers do

Answer 1

"The twilight stood as strangers do"

Explanation: This line uses "as" to compare the twilight's behavior to that of strangers, which is a simile.