Which option below from Anne Sexton’s poem “Courage” demonstrates a simile? A. Your courage was a small coal that you kept swall
owing. B. It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. C. Later, if you faced the death of bombs and bullets 15 you did not do it with a banner, you did it with only a hat to cover your heart. D. None of the above.
The only line which demonstrates a simile (a comparison using the words <em>like </em>or <em>as</em>) is B) It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake.<em />
I would choose a. Simply because the author talks about it as if it's all that really ever existed and that nature cannot take over what it is not. However, it goes on about seeing how erosion and rot can affect such things and tries to compare it to things in nature as if it were nature itself.
