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Which text in this excerpt from N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain uses a simile to create a vivid picture?

For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, (hot tornadic winds arise in the spring), and in summer the prairie is an anvil's edge. (The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet). There are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. (At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage) seems almost to writhe in fire. (Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh), and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time.

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the proper answer is "D"

"Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh,"

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Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh.

A simile is a figurative language you use to describe events, places, people, animals, ideas, etc. by making comparisons. We can easily identify it in texts or speeches that uses the words "like", "as", or "as in" to show similarity, and make the work more colorful, interesting and appealing.

In this excerpt, the author uses a simile ("popping up like corn") to convey the idea that the grasshoppers pop or jump out of the tall grass in a sudden and vigorous manner. By comparing the grasshoppers' action to corn, it makes the writing more colorful and appealing to the reader's senses.

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