Which of the following statements is a metaphor?
a.
“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.”
b.
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
c.
“Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?”
d.
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?”

Question

Which of the following statements is a metaphor?
a.
“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.”
b.
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
c.
“Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?”
d.
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?”

anonymous · Answer

Do you know what a metaphor is?

anonymous · Answer

It's a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another.

anonymous · Answer

it's b .

anonymous · Answer

Good job.