"Uncle Henry! Uncle Henry!"
But the wind screeched and howled so madly that she scarce heard her own voice, and the man certainly failed to hear her, for he did
not move.
Dorothy decided she must go to him; so she made a dash forward, during a lull in the storm, to where a big square chicken-coop had
been lashed to the deck with ropes. She reached this place in safety, but no sooner had she seized fast hold of the slats of the big box in which
the chickens were kept than the wind, as if enraged because the little girl dared to resist its power, suddenly redoubled its fury. With a scream
like that of an angry giant it tore away the ropes that held the coop and lifted it high into the air, with Dorothy still clinging to the slats. Around
and over it whirled, this way and that, and a few moments later the chicken-coop dropped far away into the sea, where the big waves caught
it....
(from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum)
Why did the author most likely use a simile comparing the wind to an angry giant?
1. to show that wind can sound like a human voice
O 2. to emphasize how powerful and unpredictable the storm was
O,3. to describe how tall the clouds were before the storm hit the ship
O4. to suggest that the wind was created by a force other than nature