Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows.

BRUTUS: for Antony is but a limb of Caesar This excerpt is an example of which literary device?

A. simile
B. personification
C. foreshadowing
D. metaphor

Answer 1

D. Metaphor. It's not simile (would have to have like or as), not personification because there is no inanimate object involved, and obviously not foreshadowing. 

Answer 2

D. metaphor

Step-by-step explanation:

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly asserts that one element is similar or equal to another element. This figure of speech is use comparisons to describe an event, someone, a place, etc., without using the words "like" "as", "such as" like similes do. Therefore, "Antony is but a limb of Caesar" is a metaphor because the statement figuratively asserts that Antony is something else.