Question

1. what is the figurative language for the part of the passage in parentheses "…and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing (clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky)
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Symbolism
E. Allusion

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Metaphor.

Metaphor is a literary tool in which a word or phrase that usually designates one thing is used to designate another making an implicit comparison between two things not alike, but that the reader will be able to understand. This rhetoric language tool is used in ways in which words acquire a contextual meaning different to that found in a dictionary, to emphasize an idea or feeling.

There are two elements:

* The real word or phrase: "depressing", "her little <<mind>>", of which the writer is truly speaking; and,

* The imaginary word or phrase: "clouds of inferiority", "mental sky", through which there is a reference made of the first one.

   

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is B) Metaphor

Explanation:

A Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.

The question features a category of metaphor called Nature Metaphors. These are metaphors which utilize naturally occurring elements in the build up of a sentence. Another example of a nature Metaphor is:

Her long hair was a flowing golden river.

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