Question

The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. What metaphor does the author use to describe the speaker's forehead and eyes? A) A wall and a cave B) A line and a sleeve C) A vault and a square D) Fir trees and pie crust

Answer 1

Answer:

A

Explanation:

The speaker's forehead is described as a wall, which probably means that he has a high forehead and that it is probably a very visible forehead that seems to rise above the rest of the face like an imposing wall would rise above a landscape.

The eyes are described as caves, which means that they were probably dark in color and significantly inset into the head. Having deep eye sockets would give the impression of having eyes at a great distance from the rest of the face due to being in a type of cave.