Use the sentence to answer the question.

The pond was so still that it looked like a silvery mirror under the moonlit sky.

Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

(1 point)
Responses

literal
literal

imaginative
imaginative

simile
simile

metaphor

1 answer

The type of figurative language used in the sentence is a metaphor, as it compares the stillness of the pond to a silvery mirror without using "like" or "as."