Read the excerpt and answer the question.

Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to fly free.

Which best describes the figurative language underlined in the excerpt?

idiom
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification

Question

Read the excerpt and answer the question.

Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to fly free.

Which best describes the figurative language underlined in the excerpt?

idiom
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification

peterg2001 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

It could be PERSONIFICATION because Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. It is the opposite of a metaphor but is very similar. In the arts, personification means representing a non-human thing as if it were human.

anonymous · Answer

opps METAPHOR MEANS A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.