English, 27.01.2020 17:31, Haleysaraya1

Thoreau included the following sentence in walden:

"there is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest."

which of the following statements rephrases his literal comparison as a metaphor?

a man building his house is like a bird building his nest.
a man's house is his nest.
every bird is an architect and builder of a nest.
between a human house and an avian nest, there is absolutely no difference in architectural skill.

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