Which sentence best explains how the use of simile in the excerpt supports
baldwin's purpose?
o
a. it compares baldwin's father's bottled-up anger to an ingrown
toenail to show that hatred is a condition that can worsen.
o
b. it exaggerates the hatred of baldwin's father to show that it can be
a destructive force in a person's life.
o
c. it describes baldwin's father in a way that appeals to the senses to
show that the father welcomed by all of his neighbors.
o
d. it likens baldwin's memories of his father's physical appearance to
a toenail to show that baldwin wanted to cut his father off.

Below is the last stanza of a poem, "dover beach," written in 1876 by matthew arnold. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night. which of these statements best describes the remedy arnold proposes for the world? a. look to your dreams for answers to life's questions. b. our faith in each other can shelter us from deceptive chaos. c. in this deceptive world, ignorance requires faith. d. the world may end, but love conquers all.