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Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.
The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire.
In this excerpt, the phrase
best shows the author’s tone of despair.
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The phrase "as though swept by fire" — the simile evokes sudden, destructive devastation and emphasizes irreversible loss, conveying the author's despair.
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