Respond to the following in complete sentences: Identify which of the following examples uses figurative language to describe the image. What makes the example you identified figurative language? Which device is used?

A: The protesters continued to gather on the marble steps of City Hall; they were a peaceful crowd that wanted to see changes made.
B: The group of protesters who surrounded City Hall was not a fly buzzing in one's ear; instead, they were a swarm of bees that demanded attention.

Question

Respond to the following in complete sentences: Identify which of the following examples uses figurative language to describe the image. What makes the example you identified figurative language? Which device is used?

   A: The protesters continued to gather on the marble steps of City Hall; they were a peaceful crowd that wanted to see changes made.
  B:  The group of protesters who surrounded City Hall was not a fly buzzing in one's ear; instead, they were a swarm of bees that demanded attention.

anonymous · Answer

B uses metaphors to describe the group of protesters.  The crowd is not literally a swarm of bees or a fly buzzing in one's ear, it is simply described using those phrases through metaphors.

anonymous · Answer

Your answer would be B.

anonymous · Answer

What makes the example you identified figurative language?

 was not a fly buzzing in one's ear; instead, they were a swarm of bees

anonymous · Answer

Which device is used?

A metaphor