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.
The correct answer would be helping verbs. The helping verbs are combined with the main verbs to indicate time, possibility and other kinds of meaning. The helping verbs' function is to help extend the meaning of the main verbs by adding more detail on it. Helping verbs are very essential in the formation of different tenses of the verb.
the suffix tion is used to form noun meaning the action of a bore verb or the result of a verb
