For age and want, save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day, the purpose of the figurative language in this example is to
a. describe what it is like to grow older
b. show how humans react to seasonal changes
c. create a metaphor based on familiar experience
d. use rhyme to emphasize unusual events

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.