Test: SAT II Literature

And when, after a long while, this storm had passed, the maid was seen; and she cried aloud with the sharp cry of a bird in its bitterness,-even as when, within the empty nest, it sees the bed stripped of its nestlings. So she also, when she saw the corpse bare, lifted up a voice of wailing, and called down curses on the doers of that deed.

(Fifth century BCE)

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In the passage, the author uses a submerged simile to compare the maid to a suffering bird in order to __________.

help describe the girl's surprise at not being able to save the life of a loved one

help describe the girl's dismay at the destruction of nature

help describe the girl's regret that all her work had amounted to nothing

help describe the maid's anguish upon returning to find her work undone

help describe the girl's fear of death

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