Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Question

P) Personification
S) Simile
H) Hyperbole
M) Metaphor
L) Literal
I) Idiom

Answer 1

The phrase "Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls" employs M) Metaphor. In this sentence, joy is being directly compared to a net, suggesting that it has the quality of capturing or encompassing love and souls, without using "like" or "as," which would indicate a simile.