Then suddenly the singer threw up his face, straightened his tubby figure, rose upon his tiptoes, and with wagging head and scarlet cheeks emitted such a howl as the same dog might have given had his growl been checked by a kick from his master.
Every Greek was a trained critic, and as unsparing in his hisses as he was lavish in his applause.
Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven amid execration and abuse from the platform.
<h3>Explain your answer briefly?</h3>
In these three lines, we can see that the tone is a mocking one. In the first sentence, the singer's singing is compared to a dog's howl when being kicked. This implies that the singing was not pleasant in any way. In the second sentence, the author tells us that the audience disliked the singing just as much, being "unsparing in their hisses.
Thus," Finally, we learn that the author refers to the singer as an "absurd fop."
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A simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or
phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order
to make a more vivacious description. So of the phrases above, only the
last one (I swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a
simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses
them in an interesting way.
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I think option 2 is one of the answers since both poems do use the elements of nature, such as describing the sky many times.
I think option 6 is also one of the answers because both poems kind of talk about youth.
And finally, I think option 3 is another answer because both poems kind of end happily.
*I AM NOT 100% SURE THIS ARE CORRECT, SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF THEY'RE NOT.
