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Its A. Synonyms. Hope it helps!
Answer:D. Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school
Explanation:
The Darkling Thrush” is the article introduced in this question — it is a poem by Thomas Hardy the English poet and novelist.
The poem paints the picture of a world that is desolated, with the poem’s narrator and such focused on the cause of despair and hopelessness.
The phrase ‘The tangled bine-stems scored the sky like strings of broken lyres’ is on the 5th and 6th line of the poem.
The use of the word ‘scored’ tells us what writer of the poem sees is destruction — as he stares at the ‘bine-stems. A simile indicating article "like" is key that helps compares the ‘bine-stems’ to ‘strings of broken lyres’ implying that that there is despair, no happiness, hopelessness or no music. Seems everything is just dead
Substituting "scored" with "like" in the context above we see that a"Cracks on roads like sidewalks does call for skaters to be careful.
