Question

Through my binoculars, I viewed a group of wild animals in action. A pride of lions was sleeping when a small, yellow bus pulled up beside them. Tourists on a safari were packed into the bus like sardines in a can. Armed with cameras, they invaded the lions' territory, hoping to capture the perfect photograph. The crowd leaned out the windows, hooting and hollering, until the lions awoke. When the lions moved away, the bus rolled after them, relentlessly stalking the pride. One of the lions turned and roared to protect the young. This was greeted with cheers and a celebratory honk of the bus horn. The curious visitors observed the lions' routine for an hour before moving on. Leaving a cloud of dust, the bus headed away, taking the wild animals off to disturb someone else's home. Review the following line from the text: Tourists who had paid money for a safari were packed into the bus like sardines in a can.

Which statement is true? (5 points)
a) The sentence features figurative language in the form of a metaphor. b) The sentence features figurative language in the form of a simile.
c) The sentence features literal language in the form of a metaphor.
d) The sentence features literal language in the form of simile.

Answer 1

The sentence 'Tourists who had paid money for a safari were packed into the bus like sardines in a can' is a simile, a form of figurative language comparing tourists in a bus to sardines in a can, suggesting they were cramped together. The correct answer is option: d) The sentence features literal language in the form of simile.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement that describes the use of figurative language in the sentence \"Tourists who had paid money for a safari were packed into the bus like sardines in a can\" from the provided text is that the sentence features figurative language in the form of a simile.

This is because the sentence compares two different things (tourists in a bus and sardines in a can) using the word \"like\", characteristic of a simile. The comparison suggests that the tourists were very cramped together, just as sardines are packed tightly in a can.