Which part of this sentence is literal

stars rocketed across the sky that night, as if pulled on a string held by a giant.

a. across the sky
b. stars rocketed
c. pulled on a string
d. held by a giant

One of the author's purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with enormous speed mark this and return save and exit next submit