In this conversation, which discussion technique does daniel most clearly show? anna. (raising her hand) the character doesn't want to know the truth. he's vulnerable. he thinks he's this horrible person, but daniel. wait, i'm confused. i don't get why he's scared to open the door because 'the doorknob is colder than [his] heart. explain this to me.

The answer would be "asking clarifying questions."

The correct answer is that Daniel is using a counterquestioning technique in order to challenge what his classmate, Anna, has answered to a question most likely possed by the professor.

Explanation:

This can be surmised from the way that Daniel uses words, and phrases his ideas, that allow a reader to know that he has been challenging, almost sarcastically, what his classmate Anna has just said. Anna answers that the character is afraid of the truth and we can connect the ideas of the probable question given by the professor by the counterquestioning, or rather, counteranswering, given by Daniel. When he says: "Wait," you already know that he is questioning what has been said before, and will challenge the ideas. Then, instead of answering directly, he basically asks a question himself, probably asking his classmate to support her answer by his giving her another piece of information that she must also clarify, in order to support her previous answer.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.