Question

use the sentence to answer the question.
after taking a job as a delivery driver, malcolm soon found out that the backroads in his small town were an elaborate web.
which clarifying statement could be added to this metaphor to make it an analogy without changing its meaning?
(1 point)
after only a few days, he decided that he didnt want to be a delivery driver any longer.
the road that he lived on was long, but when compared to the others, it was just a short detour.
every road was connected, and each was harder to transverse that the one before it.
he never realized how many spiders lived in his town, and how large and scary they were.

Explanation:

A metaphor directly states one thing is another (backroads are a web). An analogy explains the comparison. Option C elaborates on the “web” metaphor (roads connected like a web’s strands; difficulty like web’s complexity), making it an analogy. Other options don’t relate to the “web” comparison.

Answer:

C. Every road was connected, and each was harder to transverse that the one before it.