3. Short-response prompt (15 points) Read the following excerpt from Grendel. I understood that the world was nothing: a mechani
cal chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.—An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree! Select one example of figurative language that the author uses in this excerpt. Identify the type of figurative language used, and then explain what the figurative language means and analyze what it tells the reader about the story’s narrator. Be sure to use specific details from the excerpt to support your ideas
<span>This is a simile “as blindly as all that is as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back<span>this is all i have rn can someone take to info above and add on to mine</span></span>
This is a metaphor: ‘.... the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.’ It tells the readers that the narrator believes that the world is cruel and ugly, and that life is meaningless and hopeless.
A can be immediately eliminated as the obviously wrong answer, as it goes completely against the development that Scrooge faces throughout the book. We can also eliminate B as although it could be considered true, it's not the real reason why Scrooge does not support the poor.
