Writers use it to tell what the personality of a character is.
I would say that punctuation, ie a comma , would precede the block quotation to set it apart and then quotation marks would be used to show that it is a quotation, both at the beginning and end of the passage. Quotations are good to show exactly what the author quoted meant so there is no doubt and which can then be accurately commented on.
The simile is when the dialogue says "It prics like thorn"
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A simile is using like or as. so that is why this is the answer .
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it helps the reader understand the implications of events better than the narrator could
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