Which of these lines from the epitaph directly names mr. purkapile's attempt to end the marriage?
she loved me./oh! how she loved me i never had a chance to escape
i then concluded our marriage/was a divine dispensation
she might prove her mortality and let me out
then i ran away and was gone a year on a lark.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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