A hundred of miles of landscaping spread before me like a fan what are two things being compared

The two things compared in the sentence are "landscape" and "fan".

Explanation:

The given sentence is a simile, as it contains a comparison between two dissimilar things using the words "like". A simile is a literary technique used by writers to compare things that are unrelated but have a connection.

The comparison made in the statement is between "miles of landscaping" or a landscape and "a fan". This means that the speaker compares the two things, and he used the word "like" thereby making it a simile.

Thus, the two things compared are "landscape" and "fan".

yes

explanation:

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.