A student is writing a paragraph about "Broken Chain" that makes the point that Alfonso cares a lot about his bicycle. What would be the best illustration of this point? He polishes his bike until it gleams “like a handful of dimes.”
He sits on his bike “with the kickstand down” in his backyard.
He races away on his bike with the wind “raking through his butch.”
He and his brother ride “side by side” on their way to school.

The best answer would be choice A

Explanation:

This sentence shows he cares for his bike by cleaning it. It also show affection by saying it gleams.

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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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