what literary device best fits the sentence?

Question

"you could start a fire from this gaslight."
irony, metaphor, paradox, personification, allegory, allusion, alliteration, symbolism, hyperbole, foreshadowing, onomatopoeia, theme, style, rhyme, scheme, meter, caesura, couplet, enjambment, foot, lambic pentameter, sonnet, stanza, anaphora, blank verse, genre, juxtaposition.

Answer 1

metaphor

Answer 2

why

Answer 3

The sentence "you could start a fire from this gaslight" uses a metaphor because it is comparing the gaslight to something that can create a fire, even though it is actually just a source of light. It is creating a vivid image in the reader's mind by making a comparison between two unlike things.