Question

In the following lines, the author compares a bobolink to a ______________ to describe the liveliness of the bird's song.

"After the arrival of the thrushes (a type of bird) came the bobolinks (a type of bird), gushing, gurgling, inexhaustible fountains of song, pouring forth floods of sweet notes over the meadows."

A. Fountain
B. Song
C. Flood
D. Meadow

Answer 1

Fountain because birds love to sing on fountains

Answer 2

A. Fountain


The words the author uses (including the actual word 'fountain') represent how bubbly and lively the bobolinks are. The words 'gushing' and 'gurgling' are sounds a fountain makes, and when the author says the birds are 'pouring forth floods of sweet notes' it is like the way a fountain pours out water.