Read the excerpt and answer the question. i suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when i was young. which best describes the figurative language used in this sentence? idiom metaphor hyperbole personification

It could very well be between a metaphor and idiom An idiom would be something like a dark horse- could be taken literally or figuratively... A metaphor makes a comparison of some sort or something along those line, it seems more of a metaphor because it could be comparing the wait to the music that used to be heard in the community during childhood. (I hope this helps and again that's just the thing that comes to mind for me- I could be wrong)

The answer is most likely d