The passages presented in questions 1-6 are from two short stories: "Araby" by James Joyce and "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston.

Questions 1-3 are based on the following passage:

"Observing me, the young lady came over and asked me did I wish to buy anything. The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty. I looked humbly at the great jars that stood like eastern guards at either side of the dark entrance to the stall and murmured: ’No, thank you.’"

In these lines, "the great jars that stood like eastern guards" is an example of:

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The passages presented in questions 1-6 are from two short stories: "Araby" by James Joyce and "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston.

Questions 1-3 are based on the following passage:

"Observing me, the young lady came over and asked me did I wish to buy anything. The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty. I looked humbly at the great jars that stood like eastern guards at either side of the dark entrance to the stall and murmured: ’No, thank you.’"

In these lines, "the great jars that stood like eastern guards" is an example of:

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