Question

PLEASE HELP ME I NEED TO RAISE MY GRADE"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past." (from "Speech in the Virginia Convention")
The lamp of experience is an example of ______.
A) aphorism
B) metaphor
C) repetition
D) rhyme

Answer 1

B) Metaphor, as it doesn’t rhyme with anything and only repeats the word one more time. A metaphor as the word lamp is applied to experience as a figure of speech. There is no physical lamp

Answer 2

B) Metaphor. Hope this helps