Question

Review the passage from "Gumption."

Answer 1

D because it says that he was mad AS hell. A simile uses like or as. 

Answer 2

The simile is a type of figurative language that makes use of comparison words to establish a comparison among two events, animals, objects or people. Some comparison words are like or as. In this case, there is a simile which we can identify with the word as, and it is comparing Oyster's anger to hell. For this reason, the correct answer is D.