Select the item that best answers each question

Question

Which of the following uses the word blanket literally?

a. Her voice had the power to blanket a room with calm.
b. Is religion, as some scientists suggest, just a security blanket? A way for us to hide
from the truth of our mortality?
c. At night, that old black-and-white television would blanket the room in its soothing
tones of gray and ease my loneliness with the sounds of sitcom laughter.
d. As the door opened, young Thomas jumped back into bed and pretended to be asleep.
But his blanket was still settling when his mother entered. She said nothing, even
though she knew he'd been out of bed.

Answer 1

d