Question

Excerpt from The Catching of Unshelled Fish Olive Green (Myrtle Reed) ‘It may be cold up North, but down in the Gulf they are fishing—scudding among the Florida Keys in a little white sailboat, landing for lunch on a strand as snowy as the northern streets, where the shimmering distances of white sand are paved with shell and pearl, and the tide thrums out its old song under the palms.’ What two things are being compared in this sentence? A) a pavement of shells and a row of palms B) the Florida Keys and the northern streets C) a little white sailboat and shimmering sand D) a white, sandy beach and a snow covered street

Answer 1

D) a white, sandy beach and a snow covered street

This passage uses the color of the sand on the beach and the way it stretches far to compare it to the way a snow covered street might look, even though one situation is very warm and the other would be very cold.