Question

The biker who galloped like a horse became tied down to a wheelchair with one-third of her body left listless. The figure of speech used in this sentence is :
A. Personification
B. Alliteration
C. Metaphor
D. Simile​

Answer 1

The figure of speech in the statement "the biker who galloped like a horse became tied down to a wheelchair with one-third of her body left listless" is Metaphor.

• Metaphor is a figure of speech which is used to depict analogy between two things, where one thing is used to describe the other thing. For example- Riya has a gold of heart.
• Personification is a part of speech which refers to all the feelings and abstract qualities of human beings like emotions, desires, needs, etc. For example- The sun is smiling at us.
• Alliteration is the figure of speech which denotes the words with with the same sound in identical order. For example- Liza's lizard like laying on land.
• Simile is a figure of speech which compare the two things. For example- busy as bee.

Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.