Why does the poet compare the job of cleaning to an elephant? A. to show that cleaning the room will be a huge task. B. to show
that the narrator has cleaned up her room once before. C. to show that the narrator has an elephant living with her. D. to show that it is an elephant that is messing up the room.
A. to show that cleaning the room will be a huge task.
Explanation:
We do not know what poem this is referring to, but this poet uses a simile or metaphor. This is a type of figurative language and is not meant to be "taken literally." This rules out options C and D because there is not an <em>actual</em> elephant.
While B could still be an answer, the narrator could have cleaned up their room once before without it feeling like a big task. Since they chose to compare it to an elephant specifically, we can guess that the answer will be "A. to show that cleaning the room will be a huge task."
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I would say A, but idk. When I read this short story and researched about it for my dissertation, all research pointed to an "end of the world" scenario in the future where only technology prevails.
