An example of a simile is the following:
"The tree was as thin as a hound dog."
As in the sentence above, a simile is a figure of speech which compares two different things, in order to make the description more intense or forceful. Another example could be:
"The man is as tall as a giraffe."
Answer:
1- By illustrating the ways in which readers have related to the novel's characters and themes.
C on the 2nd and third sentence
A running record captures both how well a student reads (the number of words they read correctly) and their reading behaviors (what they say and do as they read).
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