Read the excerpt from "Two kinds." What is the effect of the simile on the text?

"Then I wish I wasn't your daughter. I wish you weren't my

mother," I shouted. As I said these things I got scared. It felt like

worms and toads and slimy things were crawling out of my

chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had

surfaced, at last.

It highlights how much the narrator dislikes who she

is as a person.

O

It emphasizes the narrator's relief in sharing her

feelings with her mother.

O

It shows the narrator knows exactly how much her

words hurt her mother.

O

It reveals the ugly nature of the narrator's true

character.