Read the line from the text. The undertow was like a string pulling him, and he was as useless as a wooden puppet to stop it.

What effect does the author create by using this sentence?
A
The sentence creates a humorous effect, finally allowing the reader a break from the seriousness of the text.

B
The sentence creates an angry effect, showing how Anna must have felt at the moment she saw Gerard swim out too far.

C
The sentence creates a hopeless effect, making the reader see how desperate Gerard must have felt at that moment in the water.

D
The sentence creates a helpless effect, showing that Gerard really had no fault or control over the situation or how he got into it.

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of

Need answer asap plz! the descriptions of the west wind in the first two sections of “ode to the west wind” are dominated by images of a. violence, death, decay, and burial. c. peace, birth, growth, and blossoming. b. sleep, dreams, fantasy, and reverie. d. translucence, light, color, and radiance.

Which part of this excerpt from john keats' poem "endymion" contains a simile? therefore, 'tis with full happiness that i will trace the story of endymion. the very music of the name has gone into my being, and each pleasant scene is growing fresh before me as the green of our own vallies: so i will begin now while i cannot hear the city's din; now while the early budders are just new, and run in mazes of the youngest hue about old forests; while the willow trails its delicate amber; and the dairy pails bring home increase of milk. and, as the year grows lush in juicy stalks, i'll smoothly steer my little boat, for many quiet hours, with streams that deepen freshly into bowers.