Question

You lay like a giant crab to clutch me in your claws and there I am lying now is an example of a

Answer 1

Answer:

Metaphor

Explanation:

Answer 2

It’s evident that the sentence above is comparing two things; a crab and a person. There are a couple of core literary devices that deal with comparisons: similes and metaphors.

Let’s look at how they are different.

Metaphor: compares two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as.

• Example: Her eyes are the sun.

Simile: compares two unlike things using like or as.

• Example: Her eyes are like the sun.


Read the sentence again and see whether it follows the rules of a metaphor or a simile.