Identify the figure of speech in the sentence: 'The classroom was a bustling beehive of productive intellectual activity.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. metaphor
- Step 1: The sentence directly states that the classroom was a beehive without using 'like' or 'as'. Step 2. Direct figurative comparison between two dissimilar things is a metaphor. Answer: metaphor. Why not the others: A simile uses 'as' or 'like'; personification attributes human traits to non-human things; hyperbole is extreme exaggeration.
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