Syntax affect the setting by making descriptions of time and place easy to understand. Syntax refers to the rules by which words are combined or arranged in order to create meaningful phrases or sentences in order to make the text more appealing and understandable.
C. The author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting because the sentence uses the word "like," which is an underlying hint to similes. Without it, it would be a metaphor.
Stronger is the modifier that is in the comparative degree. There are three degrees of comparison namely positive, comparative and superlative degree. <span>Positive is used when
we speak only of one thing. Comparative is comparing two objects. Superlative
is when comparing multiple things.</span>