PLEASE I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Read the paragraph.

The storm continued for hours. The thunder was so loud that it was deafening. Lightening flashed in the sky, taking the night from completely black to light. The world was coming to an end.

How does the use of figurative language help the reader understand the paragraph’s meaning?

by helping the reader understand how scary the storm is

by helping the reader recognize how long the storm lasts

by helping the reader compare the storm with an object

by helping the reader remember a similar storm

well stockyards mean a large yard containing pens and sheds, typically adjacent to a slaughterhouse, in which livestock is kept and sorted. and i'm assuming that by party you   mean a large group of people which does make sense because chicago is a very crowded place much like new york. stockyards tend to take up a lot of room due to needing the area for pens to keep animals in and the fact that stockyards are usually right by slaughterhouse where they process and distribute the product. so its much like a zoo but with some dead animal products close by.

explanation:

it refers to the definition of full-contact sports, where the condition is that the sport must have athletes must "purposely collide with each other