Question

In line 40 ("like ... armed"), the speaker uses a simile to draw attention to the contrast between

Answer 1

Incomplete question. here are the options:

A. attitudes toward tedious labor

B) solutions to a long-standing problem

C) two distinct perspectives of the world

D) personal beliefs about honorable conduct

E) opposing sides in a controversy

Answer:

A. attitudes toward tedious labor

Explanation:

A simile is a figure of speech used to compare one thing with another thing of a different kind.

The words of line 40 reads;

"In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed

He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying And he likes having thought of it so well."

Hence, the speaker likens "each hand" to an "old stone" in other to make a contrast between attitudes toward tedious labor which is evident if we examine previous lines.