Read the statement below:
What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.
This is an example of which literary term?
a. idiom
b. simile
c. metaphor
d. personification
e. imagery
f. rhetorical device
Scroll down for the answer.
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The answer here is c. metaphor. Sleep is being compared to an ocean and whatever is troubling the narrator and keeping him/her from sleeping is being compared to storms. Metaphors are often difficult to spot since they do not advertise the comparison, like similes do. If you are reading on the state test and something doesn't seem to make sense, then perhaps you missed a metaphor and are trying to read the comparison literally instead of figuratively.
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