Read this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain: "Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises craw about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time." Why does the author use the simile "popping up like corn to sting the flesh" in this excerpt? Question 14 options: A) to suggest a laziness in the land B) to show the violence of nature C) to convey how hot the weather was D) to give a picture of the behavior of grasshoppers