Question

1. Which one of the following statements contains a simile? A. The maple wears a gayer scarf. B. The soaring bird quickly disappeared from our sight. C. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. D. The woods went up in flame.

Answer 1

The answer is C.) I think I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. A similie is comparison of two objects. The comparison in this statement is: a poem lovely AS a tree. A similie usually has either the word AS or LIKE.

Answer 2

Simile is a figure of speech that involves the comparison of one thing or the subject to another form of a different kind and its also used to make the explanation of the subject more emphatic or vivid. So the answer to your question is letter (C.) "I think that i shall never see a poem lovely as a tree". The statement compares the poem into a tree.