D. "It gives readers a concrete picture of the quality of the silence." My bad i placed my answer in the wrong place at first.
Answer:
Try changing your internet connection, or change the server location.
Karen was disdaining her thoughts on the political debate.
(Now that I have answered your question can you help me with my current one. Its the most recent one on my profile page thing.)
A metaphor is used to compare two things without using the words 'as' or 'like' in the sentence.
Example: He is such a pig - that sentence compares two things the boy and the pig and no words such are mentioned with 'as or like' therefore it is a metaphor