Question

What analogy does the writer Samuel Johnson create in this excerpt from Rasselas?

I remembered that my father had obliged me to the improvement of my stock, not by a promise, which I ought not to violate, but by a penalty, which I was at liberty to incur; and therefore determined to gratify my predominant desire, and, by drinking at the fountain of knowledge, to quench the thirst of curiosity.

Answer 1

stock is to promise as penalty is to liberty

stock is to penalty as promise is to liberty

fountain is to thirst as knowledge is to curiosity

thirst is to knowledge as fountain is to curiosity

Answer 2

i think it is B

Answer 3

@Vianne @Demonx341

Answer 4

Is this History? XD

Answer 5

no this is English

Answer 6

I'm guessing D... I can't really guide you through this, since I don't know how I would be able to do that. :/

But thirst -> knowledge is you being thirsty for more. Fountain, I guess you're curious if you drink out of it? XD