Read the passage from "The Gift of the Magi" and answer the question that follows. So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself a garment for her.

Identify the figurative language underlined above and explain how it contributes to the theme of the story.

Simile; it makes Della's sacrifice all the more precious and meaningful.
Simile; it explains why Della is so upset about selling her hair.
Metaphor; it makes Della's sacrifice all the more precious and meaningful.
Metaphor; it explains why Della is so upset about selling her hair.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret