1. the onomatopoeic words are catchy to pronounce.
2. after the watching the dance performance, Cathy said sizziling, boo yeah, what a onomatopoeic personality Cathy is!
According to the excerpt, the option that identifies an implicit meaning one could draw from it would be the second one: "Locke is unfamiliar with the term <em>idea</em>".
In the excerpt, Locke is not asking what Idea is nor is he being uncertain about the relationship between speculative and practical ideas. He seems to never heard it before and the exact meaning fades away.
That's why he asks what it represents and not its definition or for someone to repeat the explanation. He just needs an example to clarify the boundaries of the <em>idea's</em> meaning.
Answer:
The author compares the character by comparing the fog to a cat.
Explanation:
The story says, "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." And that shows that we can guess that the author compared it to a cat.
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