Question

Select the statement which displays an example of metaphor.

A) He ordered a plate of jumbo shrimp.
B) From the air at night, the ship looked like a lighted birthday cake.
C) The man was a slippery snake, who always managed to slither out of trouble.
D) I can tell that this vending machine doesn't like me, because it ate my money.

Answer 1

C. The man was a slippery snake, who always managed to slither out of trouble.

Reason being the definition of a metaphor is: a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another.