Question

A commercial that compares dry skin to a desert is using which literary device? A. alliteration B. irony C. metaphorical language D. literal language E. assonance

Answer 1

metaphorical language. This is because the definition of a metaphor is the comparison of two unlike things which is what they are doing

Answer 2

The correct answer is option C: metaphorical language.

A metaphor is generally understood as an allusion or figure of speech in which a word or group of words is applied to another word or an action or image to which it would not be literally applicable.

Hence, comparing dry skin to a desert uses this literary device since normally, one can't directly relate or compare skin suffering from dry conditions to a sandy desert.