Question

Idenitfy the following as a simile or a metaphor.

Framton Grabbed wildly at his stick an hat; the hall-door, the gravel-drive, and the front gate were dimly-noted stagein his headlong retreat.

A)simile

B)metaphor

Answer 1

Metaphor is the broader term. In a literary sense metaphor is a rhetorical device that transfers the sense or aspects of one word to another.

A simile is a type of metaphor in which the comparison is made with the use of the word like or its equivalent.

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