Read the following selection from “winter mist” by robert palfrey utter. then, answer the questions that follow. i like pond skating best by moonlight. the hollow among the hills will always have a bit of mist about it, let the sky be clear as it may. the moonlight, which seems so lucid and brilliant when you look up, is all pearl and smoke round the pond and the hills. the shore that was like iron under your heel as you came down to the ice is vague, when you look back at it from the center of the pond, as the memory of a dream. the motion is like flying in a dream; you float free and the world floats under you; your velocity is without effort and without accomplishment, for, speed as you may, you leave nothing behind and approach nothing. from what type of essay was this selection taken? a. expository b. narrative c. reflective d. persuasive

C. Reflective.

Explanation: A reflective essay is an essay in which the author writes about his/her experiences in life and how this experiences have changed him/her. When writing a reflective essay, the author must include his/her personal ideas, opinions and feelings that were present in the situation he/her is describing. In the given selection from "Winter Mist" by Robert Palfrey Utter we can see an example of reflective writing, because the author is describing every thought and sensation he/she is experiencing.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.