Read this excerpt from "Hope, Despair, and Memory" and answer the question.

And yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. The Ancients saw it as a divine gift. Indeed if memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. How could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? The Talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. Without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. Only God and God alone can and must remember everything.

Which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt?

forgetting = a divine gift
forgetting = danger
remembering = ability to learn
remembering = a divine gift

Respuesta :

wrong it is A forgetting = a divine gift


Answer: A) forgetting = a divine gift.

Explanation: a metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in make a direct comparison (without the use of the words "like" or "as") between elements that aren't obviously related, with the function of creating an image in the readers' minds. In the given excerpt  from "Hope, Despair, and Memory" we can see an example of a metaphor that compares forgetting with a divine gift, so the correct answer is option A.