Which statement best describes the effect of the word choice in this passage?

Like a doomed lizard trying to cross a busy highway, Dan inhaled and
stepped to the podium to make his speech.

A. The author's use of words with positive connotations suggests
that he or she believes Dan will be more successful than the
lizard.

B. The author's use of figurative language about the doomed lizard
suggests that he or she believes Dan's speech will not be a
success.

C. The author's repetition of the letter p suggests that he or she
believes Dan is going to make a funny speech.

D. The author's reference to a highway suggests that he or she thinks
Dan's speech will be too long.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator