WONDER #821: What Is a Metaphor?

Question 1 of 3

What type of figurative language indirectly compares two unlike things by saying that one thing is the same as another?

1. simile
2. synesthesia
3. metaphor
4. onomatopoeia

Question 2 of 3

The word metaphor comes from a Greek word meaning what?

1. to compare
2. to transfer
3. to bloom
4. to educate

Question 3 of 3

What type of figurative language compares two things directly using the words “like” or “as”?

1. simile
2. synesthesia
3. metaphor
4. onomatopoeia

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