Question

Which excerpt from the poem "Girl Powdering Her Neck” by Cathy Song is an example of a simile? “her legs folded beneath her / as she sits on a buckwheat pillow” “Morning begins the ritual / wheel of the body” “The peach-dyed kimono / patterned with maple leaves” “She dips a corner of her sleeve / like a brush into water”

Answer 1

“She dips a corner of her sleeve / like a brush into water”

A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. Only the first and the last options contain the word like or as. The first option is incorrect because it is not making a comparison. It is merely stating that her legs are under her while she sits on a pillow. The last option is a simile because it uses the word "like". It compares a sleeve dipped in water to a brush dipped into water.

Answer 2

the answer is she dips a corner of her sleeve/like a brush into water