Read the passage : do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close day , rage rage against the dying of light. though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightining they do not go gentle into that good night question: what is the effect of the extended metaphor in the passage? a : it sustains the image of old age b: it sustains the comparsion of night to day c: it sustains the comparsion of death to night d: it sustains the image of night

The effect of the extended metaphor in the passage is that it sustains the comparison of death to night

Explanation:

"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas is a poem that talks about death, more precisely the narrator is waiting for his father's death, and as he makes the metaphor of night with death he tells the reader in these lines to do not accept death easily, to fight against it and not to go to the good night as it comes.

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- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."