Read the sentence. i tried to finish the meal, but the burned meat was as tough as leather, and i began to wonder whether i was eating someone’s old sneakers. which type of figurative language does the sentence contain? a) idiom b) metaphor c) personification d) simile

The type of figurative language used in the sentence is a simile, which is the letter D in the options provided. Simile is a figure of speech that compares two object by using "like" or "as". In the sentence provided, it is comparing the burned meat to a leather with the use of "as".