Which lines from "The City Is So Big" contain a simile? A. The city is so big / Its bridges quake with fear B. The lights sliding from house to house / And trains pass with windows shining C. And trains pass with windows shining / Like a smile full of teeth D. I have seen machines eating houses / And stairways walk all by themselves

C. And trains pass with windows shining / Like a smile full of teeth.

Explanation:

Similes are the literary techniques where one thing is compared to another that may be of a different kind. This comparison may happen between two very different things, but used so that the intended meaning of the word may be made more clearer.

In the given poem "The City Is So Big" by Richard Garcia, the poet used this simile when talking about the trains. In the poem, he states how the "trains pass with windows shining/ like a smile full of teeth". This simile shows how the trains compare to the teeth of a man, shining and bright. Thus, the correct answer is option C.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.