Answer:
There is no text to choose from
Explanation:
They had prosperous economy(great progress in agriculture, commerce, and handicraft industry) and flourished in science and technology such as developments of compass, gunpowder, and movable type printing.
It compares the hinges with something unfamiliar and scary.
Explanation:
A simile is a method for comparison of a thing with something different. It creates a realistic feeling to the situation, imagined or visualized distinctively.
Let us read the sentence from the story, as mentioned by the author.
"I pulled the heavy double doors open; the hinges squeaked like a platoon of lost ghosts."
The squeaky sound of the hinges because the door had not been used for a long time. The narrator is unfamiliar with what lies behind the door.
The hinges, compared to a platoon of lost ghosts, give a scary feeling to the sentence.
Hence, the answer is the second answer choice -
It compares the hinges with something unfamiliar and scary.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
There is repetition of grammatical forms in sentence "A"
This is an easy one, use the order of elimination for problems like these in the future, but the answer is (A).
