Major conflict. Ellen continually suffers abuse by her neglectful caretakers and searches for a stable home and loving family. rising action. Ellen is placed in a number of temporary homes, all of which are unhappy, and she longs for a home where she is loved and cared for.
Answer:
Qualitative, ordinal.
Explanation:
A qualitative variable is referred to qualities, not numbers. For example: mood, weather season, gender...
A ordinal variable are those that have a define order, like weather stations that has an specific order to happen and that makes it predictable.
A simile is a comparison of one thing to another, for example "smart as a fox".
The only comparison to something else that I find in the lines above is "like the rusty latch" - and this is a simile. The correct answer is then a) .