Question

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

“The group of protesters who surrounded City Hall was not a fly buzzing in one's ear;
instead, they were a swarm of bees that demanded attention.”


))) metaphor
O personification
O symbolism
Osimile

Answer 1

B. Personification.


Bees cannot “demand” attention because they cannot speak or demand anything, so this sentence is the writer giving the bees a human trait.