Excerpt from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt [1] My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four. my brother, Malachy, three the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone. on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood; the happy childhood I is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholie childhood. [3] People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:the poverty; the shiftless homework to the trips delicious mother What statement accurately Identifies the figurative language and its effect of the phrase, "It turned noses into fountains"? It is alliteration that emphasizes how the rain affected the health of the townspeople. It is a simile that helps the reader visualize the rain as something that provided lots of water. There is no figurative language in the phrase. It is a metaphor that helps the reader visualize snot constantly flowing from noses.