Question

Excerpt from: Mother Nature’s Fury

Tracy Wilson

While I cannot remember the actual impact, pictures from the aftermath tell the story word for word. The tin can that once was a car was belly up in the top of a 100 foot maple. We hung there for hours oblivious to the disaster around us. When rescuers could finally get to us, power lines made it too dangerous to touch the metal car. I awoke first 32 days after my ride in the sky and remembered much of the ordeal. My sister however, after lying in a coma for nearly three months, has no recollection of any detail from her life before the accident. Lack of oxygen erased her past. My physical wounds have long since healed, but I spend many hours below ground. The slightest hint of thunder or an awkward colored sunset sends me racing to my life below to hide from her.

The tin can that was once a car is an example of which type of figurative language?
A) allusion
B) hyperbole
C) metaphor
D) simile

Answer 1

It is most likely a metaphor.
Since it does not use like or as, it can't be a simile
A hyperbole is an exaggeration in a sense so it might also be that.
And it isn't an allusion since it isn't alluding to anything.
So it's either a metaphor or it's a hyperbole.

Answer 2

Answer: C) Metaphor.

Step-by-step explanation: a metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in making a direct comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, in order to create an image in the reader's mind. In the given excerpt from "Mother Nature's Fury" we can see an example of a metaphor used to compare the remains of a car after an accident, to a tin can, without using the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison (otherwise it would be a simile).