The paragraph that begins “My ears seemed...”
a. contains both parallelism and imperatives
b. exemplifies an attempt to describe unfamiliar emotions
c. exaggerates the gravity of antimonios discovery
d. provides critical details to understanding the setting
e. features a shirt form the literal at the beginning of the paragraph to the figurative at the close of the paragraph

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes