Which option below from Anne Sexton’s poem “Courage” demonstrates a simile? A. Your courage was a small coal that you kept swall
owing. B. It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. C. Later, if you faced the death of bombs and bullets 15 you did not do it with a banner, you did it with only a hat to cover your heart. D. None of the above.
The only line which demonstrates a simile (a comparison using the words <em>like </em>or <em>as</em>) is B) It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake.<em />