Question

Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
• Type of figurative language: Simile
• Meaning of figurative language: Compares two things
• Effect on tone and mood:
• Effect on audience:

Answer 1

Answer:

The given statement is from the Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Type of figurative language: Simile

Meaning of figurative language: Compares two things

Simile is one of the figures of speech which includes the comparison of one object with another of a totally different type or kind. It is generally used to make a description more vivid or emphatic.

Effect on tone and mood: matter of fact

Effect on audience: It enables the audience to understand the real fact of existence that injustice should be exposed in the eyes of the nation before it finds a solution.