a)Providing commentary, separate from the narrative, which illustrates the wastefulness that occurred during the Great Depression.
In the excerpt the oranges are sprayed with kerosene so that people cannot pick them up and eat them. During the Great Depression, people were extremely poor and did not have money to spend on what might seem like a luxury - fruit. The passage says "a million people hungry, needing the fruit" but it's wasted when the kerosene is sprayed on them, making them inedible.
It shows that he and Gregor don’t get along. The fact that Gregor was forced into job he
didn’t due to his father’s failure at being a provider also caused a divide
between.them. All the father cares about is that Gregor bring money into the family. When he became an insect they
grew further apart.
A.
The tone of the passage is formal.
The capitalisation has nothing to do with it. Therefore, it is A.
Answer:
simile
:A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things that must use "like" and "as", while metaphors create an implicit comparison.
