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Even back to the Middle Ages, most especially the Protestant Reformation in Germany, cartoons and caricatures are extensively used as visual propaganda for reforms to the all-powerful Catholic Church
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A simile is a comparison of one thing to another, for example "smart as a fox".
The only comparison to something else that I find in the lines above is "like the rusty latch" - and this is a simile. The correct answer is then a) .
<h2>for instance:

the base is 3 and the exponent is 2.</h2>
if the exponent is a negative number
then the answer would be positive 9. if the number is even but with a negative number your answer with turn out possitive.
or your exponent is a negative odd number like
the the answer would turn out negative : -27
you could see it for yourself by doing : -3 x -3 x -3 = -27