“A body and a spirit,” he repeated. “The body, lady, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . .”

A simile compares two different things using “like” or “as.” The passage says the body is “like a house” and the spirit is “like a automobile,” so it contains two similes. The correct choice is “two similes.”

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