Question

Which excerpt from Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" is an example of a

simile?
A. The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's
shore / Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
B. Listen! you hear the grating roar/Of pebbles which the waves
y draw back, and fling
C. And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused
alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by
night
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D. The sea is calm tonight. / The tide is full, the moon lies fair / Upon
the straits

Answer 1

A. The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's

shore / Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.