Question

Read the following sentence and then select the correct answer to the question:

Stars rocketed across the sky that night, "(bold) as if pulled on a string held by a giant. (bold) "


What does the author mean by the words in bold?

The narrator lives in a world where giants control the skies.
The shooting stars seemed other-worldly and magical.
Something went terribly wrong with the stars that night.
No one could see any stars because they were hidden.

Answer 1

b

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The shooting stars seemed other-worldly and magical.

Step-by-step explanation:

The author describes the rapid movement of the stars as if they were drawn with force by a giant. In that respect, he means that the stars were in motion in an extraordinary manner, as if that view were not from planet Earth.

The rest of the choices are incorrect because they do not reproduce the meaning of the author, who expresses a vision of beauty in the starry sky and does not literally mean that there is a giant that controls the it.