Like a great rambling meat grinder, Godzilla clambers his way through cities, pulverizing buildings and leaving shreds of civilization clumped behind him.

Which of the following correctly explains the purpose of the figurative language in this text?

To give readers an image of what a large grinder would do to a city

To give readers not familiar with Godzilla a way to imagine his effect

To imply Godzilla has an awkward manner of movement

To imply a meat grinder is more destructive than Godzilla

Question

Like a great rambling meat grinder, Godzilla clambers his way through cities, pulverizing buildings and leaving shreds of civilization clumped behind him.

Which of the following correctly explains the purpose of the figurative language in this text?
 
To give readers an image of what a large grinder would do to a city 

To give readers not familiar with Godzilla a way to imagine his effect 

To imply Godzilla has an awkward manner of movement 

To imply a meat grinder is more destructive than Godzilla

anonymous · Answer

I'd probably say to give readers not familiar with Godzilla a way to imagine his effect. Even if you have never heard of him, there's a lot of descriptive prose used in the passage to give you a pretty good idea that he was bad news to whatever city he walked through. 

Also, new Godzilla movie next year! Yay!

lena772 · Answer

why has this been bumped? @Captain_Page_Turner gave a great explanation.