The type of figurative language that is used in the sentence from George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things in an implied way. In this line, the public is compared to a swine and advertising is compared to the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
Answer:
8.) Simile.
9.) Onomatopoeia.
10.) Personification.
11.) Alliteration.
12.) Hyperbole.
13.) Metaphor.
14.) Idiom.
15.) Onomatopoeia.
Explanation:
8.) Uses "Like" when comparing the rain to the sun.
9.) Uses a 'sound' word, Buzz.
10.) Sunflowers don't have heads like humans, so they can't nod.
11.) 'CH' is the first sound of each word.
12.) Exaggeration.
13.) Comparing your life to a dream, without using 'like' or 'as'.
14.) Meaning something different than what is actually being sad.
15.) Uses 'sound' words, "clatter" and "clang".
is, am, were, was, are, be - the list is quite extenstive and depends on the sentence they are in.
Linking verbs connect a subject to a predicate adjective or predicate noun - they do not show action.
The answer is B. One of the most basic operations in glasswork is breaking glass to a desired length.
Options A, C and D do not make sense grammatically.
