Question

The Associated Press Caption: In this May 30, 1975, file photo black students attending South Boston High School climb into buses backed up close to the school's doors that will take them home after classes. In front stands one of the police officers who have been needed to keep the peace at Boston schools since September when the city started a court-ordered school integration program requiring the busing of 18 percent of public school students. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green) 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 school buses lined up like tanks on the battlefield, strategically parked to protect people. The bright and shiny yellow school buses were parked strategically to bring the students home.

Answer 1

The school buses lined up like tanks on the battlefield. Obviously the school buses are not tanks and the school is not a battlefield. But in this occasion, the metaphor is used to describe the school as a battlefield, in that there are police forces keeping the angry people from attacking the black students, who are entering the buses to be taken home. (Buses being armored like tanks)