A simile makes a straightforward comparison.
Answer:
Daedalus was bitter, angry, and jealous of Perdix's success at such a young age. Daedalus is jealous of Perdix's skill and wisdom. He wishes it could be his son, not Perdix, that is alive and well and angrily shoves Perdix out the tower.
Explanation:
The correct answer is letter b.
The excerpt is written in the Simple Past and narrates a series of events that happened in a sequence.
Notice the verbs in the Simple Past : wept, wailed, fell, faded and died.
There is a verb missing in the part " the earth stiff and cold" The verb is grow, the Simple Past form is grew, therefore " the earth grew stiff and cold" is the correct way.
Letter A is wrong because there's a verb missing.
Letter C and letter D " the earth was growing stiff and cold" the verb grow is in the Past Continuos, " the leaves were falling from the sorrowing trees" the verb fall is also in the Past Continous breaking the pattern stablished.
I think its Laertes idk ig im right :/
