Question

read the poem. then, review the bolded text in the first stanza boating at the lake the clouds were as dark as midnight, rain soaking the world through. my cousins brad and chad and i needed something else to do. brad found a stack of papers by the staircase in the hall, chad folded up some paper boats— some long, some short, some tall. we took them to the hilltop, where the rain had made some streams, and raced them to the bottom with whoops and yells and screams. well get to ride in real boats, when the weathers not so bad, but when the skies are pouring rain, i can count on brad and chad. the bolded text shows a simile, which compares two things using like or as. what is the purpose of this text? it highlights how bad the weather is. it shows that the speaker wants to go boating at night. it suggests how beautiful the clouds are.

Explanation:

The simile "as dark as midnight" describes extremely dark clouds, which signals heavy, bad rain. This bad weather is why the cousins can't go real boating and need another activity. The other options are incorrect: the speaker doesn't want to boat at night, and dark storm clouds are not presented as beautiful.

Answer:

It highlights how bad the weather is.