Read the excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”

The old man
must have stopped our car
two dozen times to climb out
and gather into his hands
the small toads blinded
by our lights and leaping,
live drops of rain.

Which type of figurative language is "leaping, live drops of rain”?

A. hyperbole
B. personification
C. metaphor
D. simile

1 answer

D. simile

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