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olya-2409 [2.1K]
3 years ago
10

Which one of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor?

English
2 answers:
Irina-Kira [14]3 years ago
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A. The breeze blew the branches back and forth

Metaphor means a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object without use like or as

Ainat [17]3 years ago
5 0

A metaphor is a piece of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using the terms "like" or "as". Off the bat, you can eliminate B and C, because they include these words. Option A is a piece of prose, it makes no comparisons.

The answer is D, because it compares the subject, "I" (most likely a person), to a rock (which is not a person).

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