During the early stages of the prewriting phase, writers should follow brainstorming techniques being mind mapping, outlining, and more!
You have to compare to teacher to something else like: "My teacher is as sneaky as a fox" ; Something like that.
A transitive verb has a direct object and usually, the subject is doing the action towards that object. The subject performs the action and the object receives the actions. So I believe D is the answer.
