Which strategy could be used to determine the meaning of an analogy? A: identify what is being compared
B: find language that is literal
C: rewrite the analogy in literal terms
D: analyze the connection between what is being compared

D). Analyze the connection between what is being compared.

Explanation:

An Analogy is described itself as a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two unlike situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation. Thus, the most appropriate strategy that can be employed to deduce the meaning of an analogy would be to 'assesses the relation or connection between the two words that are being compared' as it will assist in knowing on which aspect they resemble each other. Thus, option D is the correct answer.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

answer: the gettysburg address is a speech delivered by abraham lincoln at the november 19, 1863, dedication of soldier’s national cemetery, a cemetery for union soldiers killed at the battle of gettysburg during the american civil war.

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