17. in saying, "be careful, or you will get lost in the mud," the writer is using:
a. pun.
b. onomatopoeia.
c. climax.
d. simile.
e. metaphor.

Read the passage below and answer the question. jake was incredibly loquacious. he once gave a twenty minute monologue about his favorite movie. in the passage above, the context clue used to find the definition of loquacious is an example of an antonym an example a synonym the tone of the whole phrase