Read these lines: What could be lovelier than to hear the summer rain cutting across the heat as scythes cut across grain? Falli
ng upon the steaming roof with sweet uproar, tapping and rapping wildly at the door? Which lines contain an example of a simile? A. "tapping and rapping wildly / at the door" B. "Falling upon the steaming roof / with sweet uproar," C. "cutting across the heat as scythes / cut across grain?" D. "What could be lovelier than to hear / the summer rain"
D. "What could be lovlier than to hear /the summer rain" a simile compares two things using either the word like or as therefore, that's intense is a simile because it says "cutting across the heat AS scythes cut across grain
The pun explains that it takes time to do a procedure where you avoid the elevator. The steps refer to taking the stairs instead of the elevator. So it takes steps to use the stairs other than standing in the elevator.
