Read the passage.
excerpt from the count of monte christo by alexander dumas
which statement best explains how the phrase “poor orphan ,forlorn, without fortune” impacts the tone of the story?

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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mark brainliest and have a great day!

the answer is:

in the fourth paragraph. ( the paragraph that begins with “on friday of my third ”).

hope it !

evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

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