Question

Read this excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How It Feels To Be Colored Me”:

When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue, Harlem, City, feeling as snooty as the lions in front of the Forty-Second Street Library, for instance.

What rhetorical device is present in this excerpt?

A. Synesthesia
B. Simile
C. Epistrophe
D. Metaphor

Answer 1

Answer:

B) Simile

Explanation:

You automatically know it's an simile when something is being compared to something else by using like or as

Like or as are always key words to a simile

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