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 school buses lined up like tanks on the battlefield, strategically parked to protect people.
B. The bright and shiny yellow school buses were parked strategically to bring the students home.

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 school buses lined up like tanks on the battlefield, strategically parked to protect people.
B. The bright and shiny yellow school buses were parked strategically to bring the students home.

anonymous · Answer

Figurative language uses words or expressions that is different from the literal text.  In answer choices A and B, one of them has figurative language and the other is literal text.  Which answer choice do you think is more creative and less literal?