In the following lines, the author compares a bobolink to a ______________ to describe the liveliness of the bird's song.
"After the arrival of the thrushes (a type of bird) came the bobolinks (a type of bird), gushing, gurgling, inexhaustible fountains of song, pouring forth floods of sweet notes over the meadows."

A) Fountain
B) Song
C) Flood
D) Meadow

Question

In the following lines, the author compares a bobolink to a ______________ to describe the liveliness of the bird's song.
"After the arrival of the thrushes (a type of bird) came the bobolinks (a type of bird), gushing, gurgling, inexhaustible fountains of song, pouring forth floods of sweet notes over the meadows."

A) Fountain
B) Song
C) Flood
D) Meadow

Vocaloid · Answer

notice how the words "gushing, gurling, inexhaustible fountains... pouring forth floods..." are used to describe the song. this is pretty clearly describing water, narrowing us down to A) fountain and C) flood

between those two, which one is a better description of how the bobolink and its song are being portrayed?