Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”“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 . . .”This excerpt contains

A simile compares two things using words such as “like” or “as.” The excerpt compares the body to a house (“like a house”) and the spirit to an automobile (“like a automobile”), so it contains two similes. The correct choice is “two similes.”

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