Which is the best definition of simile?

a.
a comparison using like or as, for example; "hair like a raven's wing"

b.
a comparison using historical or literary figures; for example, "joe reminds me of the boy who cried wolf"

c.
a comparison that is not meant to be taken seriously; for example, "her closet is bigger than our house"

d.
a comparison using things commonly seen in the natural world; for example, "my desk is heavier than a boulder"

To become the mesmerizer’s subject, twain must displace hicks. twain presents himself as very different from hicks. based on this contrast, what does twain seem to value and admire in a person ?

Which of these can an adverbial clause modify?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.