Read the excerpt from part 1 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him, "If I could free my hands," he thought, "I might throw
off the noose and spring into the stream. By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach
the bank, take to the woods and get away home. My home, thank God, is as yet outside their lines, my wife and
little ones are still beyond the invader's farthest advance."
As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather
than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside.
Based on the excerpt, which is the most reasonable plot prediction?
The prisoner will escape.
The prisoner will beg for mercy,
The execution will commence,
The sergeant will stop the hanging,

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.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

the correct answer is d. a discussion of specific uses of alliteration

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when you are critiquing or evaluating a poem, you will mostly pay attention to the theme, as well as figures of speech and rhythm. alliteration is a figure of speech where consonants are repeated in neighboring words - and it is important for analysis of sound and rhythm, which is why it might appear in the evaluation of that poem.

a: it is sound because it cites an expert’s opinion.