Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” “A body and a spirit,” he repeated. “The body, la
dy, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . .” This excerpt contains one simile. two metaphors. two similes. one case of irony.
Intellectual dreamer is the best characteristics that symbolizes Carol. The other choices do not symbolize Carol in the excerpt because he is a smart person that has many dreams.
