Choose the answer.
read the passage from "a night ride in a prairie schooner."
he could hardly look over the wild oats, which tossed their gleaming bayonets in the wind, and when he dashed out into the blue joint and wild sunflowers, to bring the cattle into the road, he could be traced only by the ripple he made, like a trout in a pool.
which best identifies and interprets the underlined imagery?
question options:
a: it contains personification; it shows the reader that the boy is not very tough.
b: it contains a simile; it reveals that the boy is small and insignificant on the vast prairie.
c: it contains a metaphor; it reveals that the boy's mother is not taking care of him.
d: it contains an allusion; it allows the reader to understand prairie life.