Which of the following is an example of a simile? a. clouds of vanilla cotton candy floated in the sky. b. the house moaned and groaned with pain. c. her stomach rumbled like an approaching train. d. gentle whispers called from behind the wall.

a fable" i don’t have much to go on

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.