The backyard was covered in the late afternoon sunlight.The leaves danced in the trees, delighted that spring had finally arrive
d.The tulips were bright slashesof color like a child's crayon drawing. In the garden,the first green shoots were pushing out ofthe soilto greet the warmth of the sun.Sitting on the porch swing. I drank inthe beauty of nature,a delicious treat. What phrase from the paragraph is an example of a metaphor? A. Delighted that spring had finally arrived
B. In late afternoon sunlight
C.Greet the warmth of the sun
D. The beauty of nature,a delicious treat
A metaphor can be defined as a figure of speech typically used in literature to describe an action or object in a non-literal way. It's most commonly used to emphasize a point or make a comparison between two objects. The correct answer is option D: " The beauty of nature, a delicious treat", because, the beauty of anything (nature, a person or feeling) cannot be literally "eaten" therefore, it cannot be a treat (delicious or otherwise). The other options are discarded as correct answers because they are actions/emotions that can be done/felt literally.
Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius at this point because he believes that Claudius is praying. He says that killing the king NOW would be "hire and salary, not revenge!" He simply cannot send Claudius to heaven, where he would surely go were he killed just after praying and purging his sins.
