Asked by lexi

I ran as fast as I could to the top of the hill. I could hear Marley and Ian running behind me, but their voices were growing fainter. They were snails and I was a grasshopper leaping and jumping and leaving them behind!

What kind of figurative language does the passage use?

metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Metaphor — it directly compares Marley and Ian to snails and the narrator to a grasshopper (no "like" or "as"), rather than using a simile, personification, or mere exaggeration.