In this text, ‘whistles like an old-fashioned kettle on the boil,’ is an example of a:
All right then, I say, so what about Dr Clark’s claim that “most severe ailments” have a connection with being dehydrated? Professor Hall leans back in his chair and whistles like an old-fashioned kettle on the boil. “If he’s trying to make the case that people are thirsty without knowing it, and if they just drank a little more they could sidestep everything from dementia to cancer, well, he better start making room on his mantelpiece for a Nobel prize. Maybe even two.”

A. command
B request
C smile
D cliche

Respuesta :

C because it’s making an inanimate object seeming to have human qualities

Answer:

D cliche

Explanation:

Cliché is a wrod that we use to express or describe an action or characteristic that is related to someone or somthing that is so well known that it´s become related forever, clichés are generally known by the public andhelps to give colour to the text and makes the reader feel fond to the text.  ‘whistles like an old-fashioned kettle on the boil,’ is a cliché since old fashioned kettles on the boil whistle.