Read the passage below. And it is strange that we men, to whom this very vegetation had seemed so weird and horrible a little time ago, should now behold it with the emotion a home-coming exile might feel at sight of his native land. What is the author’s purpose in using a metaphor in the description above? The author is conveying the relief that the men feel at having escaped. The author is presenting the similarities between the natural landscape on earth and that on the moon. The author is portraying the transformation that the men have undergone as they learn to appreciate the moon’s beauty. The author is depicting the men’s return to earth after they have lived with the Selenites.