Question

Examine the photo below: Upward of 500 marchers crowd on steps and sidewalk in front of City Hall and sing after they staged an unannounced march to the municipal building, March 19, 1965, Selma, Alabama. © 2012 The Associated Press Caption: Upward of 500 marchers crowd on steps and sidewalk in front of City Hall and sing after they staged an unannounced march to the municipal building, March 19, 1965, Selma, Alabama. Respond to the following in complete sentences: Identify which of the following examples uses figurative language to describe the image. What makes the example you identified figurative language? Which device is used? The protesters continued to gather on the marble steps of City Hall; they were a peaceful crowd that wanted to see changes made. The group of protesters who surrounded City Hall was not a fly buzzing in one's ear; instead, they were a swarm of bees that demanded attention.

Answer 1

So is option b because is shows figurative language, namely metaphor, so the number of protectors is demanded that they want swarm of beef rather than the mere fly that can be ignored.

Answer 2

If you know figurative language than this should be easy for you. Figurative Language includes things like metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, idiom, and puns. So the answer to this is actually pretty simple.

Your answer is B.

Reason:

Option B uses a metaphor, which is an example of figurative language. "was not a fly buzzing in one's ear; instead, they were a swarm of bees that demanded attention." Is the metaphor in which this excerpt uses, because it compares something to another thing.

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