The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest. The music was almost loud enough so he could follow the tune.
Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of the tomb, her eyes fixed in the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.
What is the purpose of the metaphor in this passage?
a. to explain how Mildred drowned
b. to show that Mildred cannot swim
c. to explain how Mildred listens to music
d. to show Mildred's unique fashion sense
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This is a typical NCFinal three part question. Part one, do you know what a metaphor is? Part two, can you find the metaphor? Part three do you understand what the metaphor means?
The ocean is a metaphor showing how distant Mildred is when she uses the "seashell" radio. Basically Ray Bradbury is envisioning ear buds way back in the 1950s. Know that you know that, the other metaphor, the mosquito, makes more sense as well and adds to the understanding.
C. is the correct answer.
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