The word <em>mistreated </em>comes from the "treat" family.
First there is the verb to treat, then the noun treat, then the adjective treated, then the noun treatment, then you have the verb to mistreat, and then in the end you have the noun mistreatment and the adjective mistreated.
"Raining cats and dogs" literally means that small animals are falling out of the sky. But, of course, this image of animals falling from the sky is a metaphor for very large, heavy drops of water (and possibly dark skies, since animals are opaque).
In a normal metaphor there should be <u><em>no</em></u> word (like).
if you made this example try to change it, but if it is the teacher's question......
<u><em>Hope this helps!</em></u>
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "d. keystone." The part of an arch that projects slightly from the wall and the point where the arch springs from is called the keystone.
