Which excerpt from Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" is an example of a

simile?

A. The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's

shore / Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

B. Listen! you hear the grating roar/Of pebbles which the waves

y draw back, and fling

C. And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused

alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by

night

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D. The sea is calm tonight. / The tide is full, the moon lies fair / Upon

the straits

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Ethan Ponce

16 July, 06:13

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Brooklynn Weaver · Answer 1

A. The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's

shore / Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.