Which of the following quotes from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains a metaphor?
A:"Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a hold of it;shake it. There's a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man that's started in on a new life, and'll die before he'll go back."
B: "She was a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, looking like a black cloud with rows of glow-worms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big ans scary, with a long row of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards hanging right over us."***
Similes are comparisons that include the word "like" or "as" to make the comparison.
Metaphors are comparisons that don't have "like" or "as" to make the comparison.
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I changed my answer to A because B has like a black cloud..
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The answer is B: "She was a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, looking like a black cloud with rows of glow-worms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary, with a long row of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards hanging right over us."
This quote from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another. In this quote, the riverboat is being compared to a black cloud with rows of glow-worms and its furnace doors are compared to red-hot teeth. The use of these comparisons enhances the reader's understanding and visualization of the riverboat. To determine which quote contains a metaphor, readers need to analyze the language used and identify any comparisons being made between unrelated things.