Question

which excerpt from leslie marmon silkos story \the man to send rain clouds\ contains a simile?

• he turned the colored pages full of lepers and pagans without looking at them.
• they both stooped to fit through the low adobe entrance.

-... the water fell through the light from sundown like august rain that fell while the sun was still shining.

Explanation:

A simile is a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two unrelated things. We check each option for this structure:

1. The first three excerpts have no comparative words ("like"/"as") used to draw a direct comparison between two distinct items.
2. The last excerpt uses "like" to compare the water falling through sundown light to August rain that falls while the sun shines, which fits the definition of a simile.

Answer:

... the water fell through the light from sundown like August rain that fell while the sun was still shining.