Positive affectivity has many benefits for our everyday life. Happiness and positive emotions researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson has theorized that positive affectivity can broaden an individual’s momentary thought-action repertoire; in other words, positive effect encourages people to be more open, engaged, and willing to be creative.
We communicate usimg technology because we can't always meet each other in person to talk if we are to far away or not able to. Also it is quicker than sending letters.
We can actually deduce here that the excerpt from "Rikk-Tikki-Tavi" that is NOT an example of a simile is: It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tall with curiosity.
<h3>What is simile?</h3>
Simile is actually known as the figure of speech or figurative language which is used to compare two thins with the use of "as" or "like". Simile is used to compare things that are dissimilar but similar in a way.
We see here that simile is different from metaphor. Metaphor is used to compare things too but doesn't make use of "as" or "like".
The selected answer above doesn't have "as" or "like" in its sentence whereas others have. That is why it is the excerpt that is NOT an example of a simile.
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<em>Answer: According to Christopher Innes, Streetcar contains all of Williams' 'major themes: the ambiguous nature of sexuality, the betrayal of faith, the corruption of modern America, the over-arching battle of artistic sensitivity against physical materialism' (Innes in S. McEvoy).</em>