D. look up the unfamiliar word in a dictionary to check its meaning.
Context clues will always provide hints with regard to helping readers figure out what a word or term means. However, after figuring out what a word means based upon context clues (which should only be considered the first step), what you should do is look up the word in question. This should be done so you could check your interpretation as well as help you commit the new word or term to memory.
Is there a passage to go with this?
A simile is using 'like' or 'as' - similes make it easier for the readers to understand the subject of a piece of writing or sentence which could be too hard to explain otherwise.
The correct answer to this question is "personification and enjambment." The poetic techniques that are illustrated in the opening lines “I am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his <span>thumb/in secret are personification and enjambment.</span><span>
Personification - the skin betrayed
Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the line</span>
