I believe this is the correct answer:
<span><em>So before a battle begins, the horses paw the ground; toss their heads; the light shines on their flanks; their necks curve. So Peter Walsh and Clarissa, sitting side by side on the blue sofa, challenged each other.
</em>I would choose that particular paragraphs because the metaphor is slightly unusual there - two kids, Clarissa and Peter Walsh (when they were young) are being compared to horses, which is not really a common occurrence. <em>
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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.
A - he overcame great odds to achieve his goals
C. sarcasm is stating something you may not mean in a "funny" or sarcastic way. <span />
Answer:
D) Establish an independent cultural identity
Explanation: Not wanting to follow in China’s footsteps, Japan needed to distance itself from the political and cultural practices that they had inherited from China in order to survive as a country.
