I ran as fast as I could to the top of the hill. I could hear Marley and Ian running behind me, but their voices were growing fainter. They were snails and I was a grasshopper leaping and jumping and leaving them behind!


What kind of figurative language does the passage use?


A.metaphor

B.simile

C.personification

D.hyperbole

Respuesta :

Answer: a metaphor because the speaker is comparing her friends to insects.

Explanation:

The kind of figurative language which the passage uses is:

  • A. Metaphor'

What is Metaphor?

This refers to the figure of speech which makes use of comparison to compare between two dissimilar things.

With this in mind and from the given text, we can see that the narrator is making a comparison between his friends and the grasshopper which is a direct  comparison.

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