Answer:
degrade
abuse (physically and mentally)
affect the victim's reputation
and diagnose them with mental illnesses example: depression, anxiety, anorexia etc
and makes them self conscious
rant.
He went into a long rant about the out come of the last election after it was mentioned on the news.
Hi,
The answer to your question is "The controlling metaphor equates the author's book to a child."
If you are reffering to Anne Bradstreet's poem, "The Author to Her Book"?