Question

There is the "counting-room," a long, low, brick building, and opposite is the "store-house," built of the same material, after the same model. Between them, swings the ponderous gate that shuts the mills in from the world without.
In referring to the "ponderous gate" the writer uses:
A. epithet.
B. simile.
C. metaphor.
D. parallelism.
E. allegory

Answer 1

Metaphor because the ponderous gate is not comparing or contrasting two different things. its also not using the word like or as.