the following quotation contains an example of a figurative device. What is that device?

“He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.”

simile

metaphor

personification

hyperbole

Question

the following quotation contains an example of a figurative device. What is that device?

“He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.”


		
simile

		
metaphor

		
personification

		
hyperbole

anonymous · Answer

Look at the part that says "become soft like woman"

obeyrealz · Answer

metaphor

obeyrealz · Answer

is it?

anonymous · Answer

Actually no, a metaphor would say that they are women

anonymous · Answer

But because it uses the word "like" it is a...

obeyrealz · Answer

your right so it would be a simile

anonymous · Answer

Yup :)

obeyrealz · Answer

Thanks again :)