Question

choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: belindas fingers were icicles after her ice skating lesson.

• exaggeration
• metaphor
• personification
• simile

Explanation:

A metaphor directly compares two unrelated things without using "like" or "as". Here, Belinda's fingers are directly stated to be icicles, drawing a comparison between the cold fingers and frozen icicles. Exaggeration is overstatement, personification gives human traits to non-humans, and a simile uses "like" or "as", which are not present here.

Answer:

metaphor