Read the line from the passage and answer the question that follows.

'Bertie,' she said, 'you look a sight. You look perfectly dissipated.'
I was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. I'm never at my best in the early morning. I said so."

- The author uses the phrase "a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel " for which of these purposes?

a.To develop an ongoing metaphor

b. To set a dark tone for the passage

c. To juxtapose opposite characteristics

d. To foreshadow an important plot point

Question

Read the line from the passage and answer the question that follows.

'Bertie,' she said, 'you look a sight. You look perfectly dissipated.'
I was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. I'm never at my best in the early morning. I said so."


-       The author uses the phrase "a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel " for which of these purposes?
 
a.To develop an ongoing metaphor

b. To set a dark tone for the passage

c. To juxtapose opposite characteristics

d. To foreshadow an important plot point

anonymous · Answer

a.