Simplicity is to garden design as symmetry is to building design.

What type of figurative language does this sentence use?
a. analogy
b. allusion
c. metaphor
d. simile

Question

Simplicity is to garden design as symmetry is to building design.

What type of figurative language does this sentence use?
a. analogy 
b. allusion
c. metaphor 
d. simile

anonymous · Answer

@ganeshie8

anonymous · Answer

Select a trait that is associated with descriptive writing.

 Interesting word choice
 Strong plot structure
 Complex conflicts
 Surprising endings

january123 · Answer

Okay any ideas for the first question?

anonymous · Answer

is it analogy? @january123

january123 · Answer

a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
You tell me

anonymous · Answer

I think its analogy @january123

january123 · Answer

we know it's not c or d

january123 · Answer

Metaphor is a poetically or rhetorically ambitious use of words, a figurative as opposed to literal use. It has attracted more philosophical interest and provoked more philosophical controversy than any of the other traditionally recognized figures of speech.
Is metaphor meaning

january123 · Answer

b:an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

january123 · Answer

It just might be a if non of the meanings agree