"nor how they sometimes fall short" (line 8)
I hope this is the passage you are referring to.
This poem is regarding a cat that should go home but has soo much more to do. It expresses how the cat hears the call to come home but instead continues to enjoy its own activities.
Hope this helps
I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is option D. The type of figurative language used would be simile. It<span> is a figure of speech that directly compares two things by using connecting words for instance like and as. Hope this answers the question.</span>
Why was the study undertaken?