Question

which figure of speech is used in this text? in the 1950s, there was great societal pressure on women to stay at home and raise children. many women enjoyed doing so, but for others home was a prison they yearned to escape. metaphor personification

Explanation:

A metaphor directly compares two unrelated things by stating one is the other. Here, "home" is compared to "a prison" to show the restrictive feeling, without using "like" or "as". Personification gives human traits to non - human things, which isn't done here. So the figure of speech is metaphor.

Answer:

metaphor