I tried to finish the meal, but the burned meat was as tough as leather, and I began to wonder whether I was eating someone’s old sneakers.
Which type of figurative language does the sentence contain?
a) idiom
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) simile
Simile is a figure of speech that is used to make comparision. In simile, a particular thing is compared to something else. Simile typically make comparision between two things by using "as" or "like".
In the question, the burned meat was being compared to leather due to its toughness. The comparison was made using "as". This is a simile.
<span>Infinitive phrases don’t contribute to the dreary
mood of this short passage from the novel “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens.
Infinitive phrases are consisted form the infinitive form of a verb plus any
complements (often direct object) or/and modifiers (often adverb) and in this
short passage there are none of them, so they can’t contribute to the mood.</span>
