Toward the middle of the second paragraph, the comparison between the stars and "a distant cloud of fireflies" (sentence 6) is best described asAa homely simile that expresses the narrator's yearning for a more rural settingBa reductive image that reveals the extent to which the narrator's moral values have been corrupted by the cityCpart of an elaborate analogy that the narrator develops to explain the scientific properties of starlightDa hyperbolic expression that hints at the stars' destructive potentialEa lively metaphor that emphasizes the narrator's initial delight at being able to see stars in the city

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