Question

Read the excerpt from "Once Upon a Time" and answer the question.

Answer 1

D) The author uses a description of the alarms to symbolize the overstated degree of danger that the residents have assumed thanks to the Neighborhood Watch.  

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Answer 2

The correct answer for the effect of using figurative language comparing the alarms sounds and how they bother the inhabitants as much as a croak of frogs or the musical cicada sounds suggests that they got used to the alarms because the violence was so exaggerated.

The right option is D) The author uses a description of the alarms to symbolize the overstated degree of danger that the residents have assumed thanks to the Neighborhood Watch.