My bride looked charmingly in a green silk calash and riding habit of pelisse cloth; and whenever her red lips parted with a smi
le, each tooth appeared like an inestimable pearl. Which BEST describes the author's use of figurative language in this sentence from paragraph 4?
A) a simile to convey the narrator's fear
B) a simile to convey Mrs. Bullfrog's beauty
C) a metaphor to convey Mrs. Bullfrog's beauty
D) a simile to convey the clothing worn by Mrs. Bullfrog
A simile to convey Mrs. Bullfrog's beauty is used in this sentence. Specifically; each tooth appeared like an inestimable pearl. A simile compares unlike things using the word like or as.
The novel is a story-within-a-story. Creech writes about Sal's road trip to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents, and during the trip, Sal tells her grandparents about her friend Phoebe Winterbottom and the disappearance of Phoebe's mother.
