Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the misbeats of my heart tailed off like the last muffled flourishes on one of the wooden xylophones made by the chopi and tsonga migrant miners what is being compared in the passage from “once upon a time”? a. the narrator’s home and a gold mine b. the narrator’s heartbeat and musical instruments c. the musical instruments and the migrant miners d. the narrator and the miners

B) the narrator’s heartbeat and musical instruments.

Explanation: A simile is a figure of speech that consists in making a comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, this comparison is made using the words "like" and "as." In the given excerpt we can see an example of a simile that compares the narrator's heartbeat ( The misbeats of my heart) to musical instruments (specifically to wooden xylophones made by migrant miners).

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

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