I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.
He hadn't fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
Which best describes the effect of simile on the overall meaning in this
excerpt?
A. It compares the fish's skin to wallpaper to support the image of a
shabby but admirable fish.
B. It describes the fish as battered and homely to build on the theme
of disillusionment.
C. It explains that the fish is like a pattern to illustrate just how old it
appears to the speaker.
D. It makes the fish take on the qualities of a grandparent to show
how much the speaker respects it.