Answer:
When the speaker first hears the tapping, he becomes anxious and feels that he is filled with "fantastic terrors." He attempts to calm himself by reasoning that he simply has a late-night visitor.
Explanation:
c
Metaphor
It compares a man to a bear without using like or as, so I believe it would be a metaphor.
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you want us to write thewhole thing? Because a story on the Pandemic would make sense comming from you, as your teacher knows how you write.