Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

Answer 1

Answer: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh

Explanation:

The text in this excerpt from N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountainb that uses a simile to create a vivid picture is "Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh".

A simile refers to a figurative language there used in the description of people, places, events etc through comparisons. In similes, words such as "like" as used in showing similarities.

In this excerpt, we can infer that the simile was used in the phrase "popping up like corn". This conveyed the message that grasshoppers jump out of the tall grass.