An analogy is a type of figurative language that offers a comparison between two resembling or equivalent situations, people, or objects, as the basis to clarify the explanation or meaning more effectively. It compares an obscure thing to a familiar word in order to clarify or explain the meaning.
Metaphors and Similes are the most common forms of an analogy. <em>Analogy demonstrates a figurative language that connects an obscure(new idea) with the ordinary or common idea that makes it easier for the readers to affiliate the meaning to that word in a familiar context.</em> For example comparison of 'blind eyes' with 'meteor' in the phrase, 'Blind eyes could blaze like meteors'. Thus, <u>option D</u> supplies the correct answer.
The short story “Civil Peace” has been written by Chinua Achebe. The thieves in the story are very bold and arrogant. But when Jonathan's family began to yell, the thieves responded to them by helping them. The thieves threatened them and mocked at them. They mocked them by crying out as the way Jonathan's family was crying out. The story is set in Eastern Nigeria right after the end of the Civil War.
