Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.”The next day he spent his lawn-mowing money on a new shirt and, with a pocketknife, scooped the moons of dirt from under his fingernails.The descriptive language shows that

The phrase “moons of dirt” compares the dirt under Alfonso’s fingernails to small crescent moons. This shows that the dirt has a curved shape, so choice B is correct.

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