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This question is based on the following paragraph.

The back yard was covered in late afternoon sunlight. The leaves danced in the trees, delighted that spring had finally arrived. The tulips were bright slashes of color like a child's crayon drawing. In the garden, the first green shoots were pushing out of the soil to greet the warmth of the sun. Sitting on the porch swing, I drank in the beauty of nature, a delicious treat.

Which phrase from the paragraph is an example of a metaphor?

A. Greet the warmth of the sun
B. The beauty of nature, a delicious treat
C. Delighted that spring had finally arrived
D. In late afternoon sunlight

Respuesta :

I would say B. I don't know why you have this under history though.

Answer:

B. The beauty of nature, a delicious treat

Explanation:

The metaphor is one of the most important rhetorical figures. By metaphor is meant the displacement of meaning between two terms with an aesthetic purpose: A is B (Your skin, and a velvet ajado, Miguel Hernández). His study goes back to the Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle.

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