How dose the underlined sentence on page 3 use a literary technique to express an important idea in the passage?

“They worked bravely and well, and if their doings are now forgotten or undervalued, it is only because the harvest sowed by them is being reaped by the present generation.”

A.) It uses a metaphor to suggest that American women painters have had to work as hard as farmers to become artists.

B.) It uses an analogy to show how the efforts of earlier women painters are directly connected to the success of contemporary women artists.

C.) It uses parallelism to emphasize that past and present women artists women artists in America all belong to be same land.

D.) It uses hyperbole to highlight how contemporary women artists have neglected to show appropriate gratitude for earlier women painters.