Question
Which figure of speech is used in the following excerpt from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare?
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
onomatopoeia
personification
metaphor
simile
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
onomatopoeia
personification
metaphor
simile
Answers
GPT-4o
The figure of speech used in the excerpt from the play "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare is **simile**.
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as." In this excerpt, the comparison is made between the school-boy and a snail using the word "like":
"creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school."
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as." In this excerpt, the comparison is made between the school-boy and a snail using the word "like":
"creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school."