Question

Read this excerpt from paragraph 7 of “Sixteen” by Maureen Daly and answer the quesrtion.

You know, to start to skate at a crowded rink is like jumping on a moving merry-go-round. Once in, I went all right. At least, after I found out exactly where the rough ice was. It was “round, round, jump the rut, round, round, jump the rut, round, round - .”

In this excerpt, the narrator describes ice skating using which example of figurative language?

simile
oxymoron
euphemism
hyperbole

Answer 1

The answer is option 1: Simile.

A simile is a figurative language or a metaphor that uses comparisons to describe an event, someone, a place, etc. It aims to make the writing more colorful and interesting. We can normally identify a simile because it uses "like", "as" and "as in" in the sentence.

In this case, we know for sure that the narrator describes ice skating using a simile since it describes it by comparing it with another action "is like jumping on a moving merry-go-round."