Answer: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh
Explanation:
The text in this excerpt from N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountainb that uses a simile to create a vivid picture is "Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh".
A simile refers to a figurative language there used in the description of people, places, events etc through comparisons. In similes, words such as "like" as used in showing similarities.
In this excerpt, we can infer that the simile was used in the phrase "popping up like corn". This conveyed the message that grasshoppers jump out of the tall grass.
1. C. Osculate is the word that does not mean hostility. Osculate is a term in mathematics.
2. B. Efface is the word that does not mean a second appearance. To efface means to erase.
3. A. Decapitate is the word derived from Latin word for "head". Capita in Latin means head.
I am pretty sure it is irony and sarcasm
