I ran as fast as I could to the top of the hill. I could hear Marley and Ian running behind me, but their voices were growing fainter. They were snails and I was a grasshopper leaping and jumping and leaving them behind!

What kind of figurative language does the passage use?

A. metaphor

B. simile

C. personification

D. hyperbole

a metaphor because the speaker is comparing her friends to insects.

Explanation:

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,



question

discuss the two key differences between the prose form of sojourner truth’s speech and the poetic version. use evidence from both texts to support your response.