Question

"The world was a cattle wagon hermetically (airtight) sealed"

tically (airtight sea
6. What type of figurative language is it? (Imagery, personification, metaphor, or
simile etc.)
7. Explain the figurative language. For example, if it is a simile, what is being
compared and why?

Answer 1

6. Metaphor

7. The figurative language used here is metaphor. In the poem, the world is being compared to a airtight cattle wagon to describe the feelings or emotions of people (Jews) being locked up in ghettos during the world war 2 with no air making many suffocate. It describes their despair & anxiety.

There's no use of 'like' or 'as', hence it's not a similie. There's no imaginative description as well nor does it get the reader to perceive the line from his/her imagination, so it's not an example of imagery as well. It's definitely not a personified line as no object is given a human trait here.

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