Read the passage from "two kinds.”

i had assumed that my talent-show fiasco meant i never had to play the piano again. but two days later, after school, my mother came out of the kitchen and saw me watching tv.

"four clock,” she reminded me as if it were any other day. i was stunned, as though she were asking me to go through the talent-show torture again. i wedged myself more tightly in front of the tv.

"turn off tv,” she called from the kitchen five minutes later.

i didn’t budge. and then i decided. i didn’t have to do what mother said anymore. i wasn’t her slave. this wasn’t china. i had listened to her before and look what happened. she was the stupid one.

she came out from the kitchen and stood in the arched entryway of the living room. "four clock,” she said once again, louder.

"i’m not going to play anymore,” i said nonchalantly. "why should i? i’m not a genius.”

she walked over and stood in front of the tv. i saw her chest was heaving up and down in an angry way.

"no! ” i said, and i now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged. so this was what had been inside me all along.

"no! i won’t! ” i screamed.

what type of conflict occurs in the passage?

character vs. character

Explanation:

In the text shown in the question above, we can see a conflict between two characters, where the main character refuses to do what his mother asks, but the mother doesn't give up and insists on ordering the main character to do what she is asking. being requested. The cause of all this conflict is a piano. The main character refuses to play the piano again, but her mother refuses to allow her child to stop playing the piano.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

explanation: