Which answer option best explains the meaning of a METAPHOR in this? A. "Press pause on our daily program" means that the speaker has
been watching too much television and would like to become
more active.

B. "Sleep under the stars" means that the speaker's camping trip has
been tiring and overwhelming, like a journey into outer space.

C. "Press pause on our daily program" means that the speaker's
everyday routine has started to feel automatic, like a show that
plays even if no one wants to watch it.

D. "Sleep under the stars" means that the speaker has trouble falling
asleep, like a person with insomnia.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this