As I carried the last of the boxes full of the legal papers outside, I tripped. The lid flew up in the air, and the
mocking breeze caught the papers one by one in slow
motion, holding each one up in front of me before whisking
it away into the street like confetti.
Which sentence describes the effect of the figurative language in this
passage?
A. The action is described in terms of slow motion, like a film,
B. The breeze is described as having the personality of a jokester.
C. The verb whisk suggests an action of cleaning.
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D. The comparison to confetti shows that the incident was no big
deal.

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.