Click to read the passage from "The Nose," by Nikolai Gogol. Then answer the question.
What would a Russian reader from Gogol's day recognize most in the story?

I would say the first sentence kind of gives a suspenseful feeling.

Explanation:

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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