THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (A). A METAPHOR, CHOICE (B), IS A FIGUREOF S...

The correct answer is (A). A metaphor, choice (B), is a figure

of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were

something else. Choice (C), a conceit, is an elaborate figure of

speech comparing two unlike things. Choice (D), onomatopoeia,

is the use of a word whose sounds imitates the sound of the

thing being named. Another type of comparison, a simile, choice

(E), is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things by

using words such as

or

selection. Personification, (A), the giving of human characteris-

tics to nonhuman things, allows the disease to speak.