Can someone help me answer these please

What does a comparison show? (5 points) a)how two things separate b)how two things are similar c)how two things conflict d)how two things are different

In the story "a very old man with enormous wings", why does the young girl get changed into a spider?

Read the sentences below. (1) wordsworth believed that poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways, and shelley's "ode to the west wind" does just that. (2) in the poem, the speaker calls the wind "thou breath of autumn's being." (3) later in the poem, the speaker refers to the wind as both "destroyer and preserver." which word or phrase would smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2? a "in addition" b "finally" c "for instance" d "moreover"