Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Neither laughter nor love, Hung in the air Over the petroleum morgue that night.
The phrase “petroleum morgue” in this excerpt from Bart Edelman’s “They Shot Wook Kim” is an example of what literary device? alliteration figurative language metaphor technical language
The metaphor is the literary devices that compares two unrelated thing using implied language, the comparison does not use the words “like” or “as” to compare instead the similitude between the object is implicit, when Bart Edelman says “petroleum morgue” we get the picture of dark morgue like petroleum. The answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that asserts that one element is similar or equal to another element without using the words “like” or “as.” It is an implied comparison that is often used to make the writing or speech more colorful and interesting and to give new insights. The phrase “petroleum morgue” is a metaphor: it implicitly compares the word “petroleum” to something extremely dark, suggesting that the morgue was extremely dark.
