Is this the excerpt you are referring to?
<span>In a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
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If so, the use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand how hot the spear actually is.
Here is the answer of the given question above. Doodle's repeated pleas of "Don't leave me" foreshadows that <span>the narrator races ahead and leaves Doodle to struggle behind during a terrible storm which happened later in the story. This is based on the excerpt from "The Scarlet Ibis". Hope this answer helps.</span>
The answer to the given question above would be the first option. Based on the poem, the "long road” the one which symbolizes the given lines above is <span> personal growth and life journey which is being compared to a long road curved through trouble and joy. Hope this helps.</span>
