Read the following line from Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Capulet speaks of his daughter's apparent death:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
How does Shakespeare use a simile to emphasize the tragedy of the apparent death?
A. By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too young to die.
B. By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too beautiful to die.
C. By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that Juliet's body is cold.
D. By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that he has lost the best daughter in the land.
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B. By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too beautiful to die. The simile emphasizes the tragedy of Juliet's apparent death by comparing her beauty to a delicate flower that has been killed prematurely by frost.
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