Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure.

In this excerpt, the phrase "article of faith" is an example of a(n) _____.

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

Answer 1

B. Metaphor

A metaphor is figurative language because it is a figure of speech in which a comparison is being made between two things that are generally quite different in order to provide a more impactful/effective description. A metaphor states one thing is another thing by using “as” in part of the description as is done in the following example: “I am as hungry as a wolf” and is the case with how humans held their belief that the farm would fall as an article of faith.

Answer 2

The correct answer that would best complete the given statement above would be option B. METAPHOR. Based on the given excerpt above about the Animal farm, the phrase "Article of Faith" is an example of a metaphor. Hope this is the answer that you are looking for.