Read the excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural address.

Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

Using your knowledge of figurative language, ''the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side'' is an example of which technique?

a
Alliteration

b
Metaphor

c
Simile

d
Personification