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.
The blank should be filled with "cat". In other analogies, Siamese may be to Thailand, since it refers to the Thailand language, but in this particular analogy, the creator purposefully included hound is to dog before it, making the solver think of another pet, in which case can only be referring to the Siamese cat.
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It is illogical because it relies on faulty reasoning