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Craft and Structure practice question

The old railway embankment runs across the valley like a stitch across a wound, and the fields on either side, which were one farm before the line was cut in 1850, have belonged to different families ever since.

Which choice best describes the function of the comparison to a stitch across a wound?

  1. A. It conveys that the railway both divided the land and has become a permanent, healed-over feature of it.Correct
  2. B. It indicates that the railway is still in use.
  3. C. It suggests that the fields are flooded.
  4. D. It implies that the farm was reunited.

Answer: A. It conveys that the railway both divided the land and has become a permanent, healed-over feature of it.

A cut, now closed over and permanent.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. It indicates that the railway is still in use.
'Old' embankment.
C. It suggests that the fields are flooded.
Not suggested.
D. It implies that the farm was reunited.
'Different families ever since.'

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