Question

Read the paragraph. Then answer the question that follows.

The USS Alabama, built in 1942, is a monster weighing in at 35,000 tons. The ship was built during the Second World War and spent 40 months actively assisting the war effort in the Pacific Ocean. During that time, she was in 26 battles. In 1964, the ship moved to her present home in Mobile, Alabama.

What type of text connection is in this paragraph and how do you know?

An analogy, because the USS Alabama is to a monster as a battle is to war
An analogy, because the USS Alabama is noted as being as big as a monster
A comparison, because the USS Alabama is to a monster as a battle is to war
A comparison, because the USS Alabama is noted as being as big as a monster

Answer 1

The figurative language used in the passage is specifically a "metaphor" since the USS Alabama is being compared to "a monster" with language saying it "is" a monster.
Metaphors are a type of comparison; it should be clear that the type of comparison being used her is *not* an analogy, since the USS Alabama's relationship with "a monster" is not being compared to another relationship between two things; the ship is being directly compared to "a monster"

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